Posted on 12/13/2015 11:28:27 AM PST by iowamark
Marine Le Pen's far-right National Front collapsed in French regional elections Sunday after dominating the first round of voting, according to pollsters' projections.
Le Pen had been riding high after extremist attacks and an unprecedented wave of migration into Europe, and the party came out on top in six of France's 13 newly drawn regions in the first-round vote a week ago. But projections by France's major polling firms suggested that failed to translate into any second-round victories.
Three polling agencies projected Le Pen and her niece both lost their bids to run two French regions.
Ipsos, Ifop and TNS-Sofres projected that Le Pen won around 42 percent of the vote in the Nord-Pas de Calais region, compared with about 57 percent for conservative Xavier Bertrand.
Le Pen's niece, Marion Marechal-Le Pen, was projected to win about 45 percent in the southern Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur region. Conservative Nice Mayor Christian Estrosi was projected to win about 55 percent.
The Socialists pulled their party out of both races and it appears that many voters cast ballots to prevent the once-pariah National Front from gaining power.
The polling agencies base their projections on actual vote count in select constituencies. Official results are expected early Monday.
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Sarkozy didn’t deliver when he was in power last time, why would anyone believe he would do it if he were in power again?
The results are in, the results are final. Please feel free to comment. The next elections in France will be the Presidential primaries in 2017. Thanks to all for your comments.
Socialism is hard to overcome. Maybe one more Paris attack.
They voted to die more. Typical.
He has two reasons that -should- motivate him. First is that he is only in the game because the socialists backed him. He hangs by a thread and a bit of chicanery. Second is because of the Paris shootings. Too many French have submitted to the idiocies of EU transnational dogma, but some are reassessing that and some are already there. I would add three for the coming terrorist attacks, because Moslems are incontinent at the prospect of killing someone. They will not be able to pretend they are peaceable for very long, but the new incidents will come.
Sarkozy begins as a weak hand in a compromised position, having to bend to PC and control his Moslems, AND fend off FN ascendancy. He had better perform. He may not, and that is fine. I hope every one of the present EU satraps ends up in prison or worse before this is over.
I want people like these in charge of the nation states of the Northern Hemisphere.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqybsUqkOWs
Geez, give the Frenchies a break.
It's been a WHOLE MONTH since the massacre in Paris, and the white surrender flags haven't been taken out to play in such a long time...
Isn’t Sarkozy on record claiming Europe must open/do away with her borders for ‘migrants’?
The French would rather be massacred by Muslims than have a rightwing government.
Well, then, you’re on your own, Froggies.
Very interesting. Thanks for posting.
They collapsed? Looks like the socialist capitulated before the first vote was cast. That doesn’t sound like collapse.
It was more like a tactical retreat.
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