French local elections confirm come back of Sarkozy and containment of Marie Le Pen

Monday, March 30th 2015 - 06:32 UTC

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The far-right National Front (FN) made only limited gains in French local elections won by ex-president Nicolas Sarkozy's conservatives. The anti-immigrant, anti-EU party is likely to have won up to 108 local council seats, from holding only one currently. But they will have too few in any one of the 102 “departements” to control any of them, updated Sunday exit polls showed. Read full article

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Briton
Labour idolises this man,

hope he loses..
Mar 30th, 2015 - 06:05 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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ilsen
Does French Guiana, an overseas department and region of France, on the north Atlantic coast of South America, get to vote in this?

How curious...

I wonder what CFK thoughts on this are, and why she hasn't taken it to the UN committee.
Is it because she is still begging for fighter jets, or just scared of the Paris Club?
Or just not useful as a distraction technique?

Eye think we should be told...
Mar 31st, 2015 - 02:35 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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Briton
Agreed.
Mar 31st, 2015 - 07:38 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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