French regional elections

[Duque de Bragança]

Wrong region Ed, sorry.

Why is she not front and national?

[spoiler]Not[/spoiler] too old and too fat, unlike her aunt.

[Duque de Bragança]

Marion picture of the day for Languish.

[Josquius]

Doom?

[Duque de Bragança]

This would be doom:

[Maladict]

FN wins none of the regions. 

[Duque de Bragança]

For the Languish fanboys of Marion, here's a picture from the good times of the first round results:

[Duque de Bragança]

Results arrived:

Out of the 12 new regions in the mainland, 7 went to the right and centre:

Île-de-France, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur (no leftie list in the run-off), Nord-Pas de Calais-Picardie (no leftie list there in the run-off), Greater East region/French Lotharingia (despite a dissident PS list), Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, Greater reunified Normandie (sorry Ed no FN for you there but you're safe from the left at least), Pays de la Loire (Vendée, Anjou, Lower Loire whatever).

The other five for the left:

Greater Burgundy (Burgundy + France-Comté), almost 1/3 for each block but first past the post premium (25 % of the seats), the left had two more points than the right itself only a couple of decimals in front of the FN, this will be a nice region for leftie experimentation with 2/3 of the vote against them; Brittany (incomplete still not including Nantes the ducal capital) stronghold of the PS; Centre Val-de-Loire (Tours/Orléans), almost one 1/3 for each bloc the left had one more point than the right, same situation as in Greater Burgundy; Great SW blob region (Aquitaine, Poitou-Charentes, Limousin) gerrymandered for the PS, convincing left victory 11 points; Languedoc-Roussillon Midi-Pyrénes (from Toulouse to French Catalonia) convincing left victory 10 points ahead of the FN, FN candidate there is Louis Alliot, boyfriend of Marine, right and centre far behind.

Thanks to the FN, the PS and its allies avoided a total disaster. One could describe these results as a victorious defeat for the FN since it has reached unprecedented levels.

edit: NO region (zero) for the FN

[mongers]

Are these elections as important as the local elections in Saudi Arabia that our media have spent the weekend trumpeting?

[Duque de Bragança]

Well, I believe French regions have more powers than councils in Saudi Arabia, and everybody would agree that there is more variety in political choices in France so that made French elections more interesting to follow.

PS: No Marion in Saudi Arabia.

[Ed Anger]

As long as the socialists took a kick in the nuts in Normandy, I'm happy.

[Monoriu]

Marion picture of the day for Languish.

She is young, but her looks are average at best.  5/10.

[Jaron]

Does this mean France is now a nation of the far right?

[Martinus]

Does this mean France is now a nation of the far right?

Uhm no. Why would you say that?

[Jaron]

The Duque said the right won 7 duchies.

[Eddie Teach]

But he also said the "far" right won zero.

Or Maladict did.