Regional elections in France, in the wake of November 13

Saturday, December 05, 2015
Regional elections in France, in the wake of November 13


A few hours before the regional elections in France by extreme right precede the polls, the ruling Socialist Party and the right-wing opposition throwing their last forces into battle, to mobilize the electorate and prevent an expected rise of the National Front.

A new poll confirmed yesterday, the last day of a campaign conducted in the wake of attacks in Paris, the National Front remains first in voting intentions for the elections whose first round will take place tomorrow. The party of Marine Le Pen already gained in recent months, but the trauma of jihadist attacks in Paris, which killed 130 people in November 13, it seems that enhanced the thrust of. The latest polls put in the lead four to six of the 13 regions of the country. The victory in the second round on December 13 provided in at least two regions, something unprecedented in France.

 The FN rate takes 29.5% nationally, ahead of the opposition Republicans (LR) former President Nicolas Sarkozy's right-wing and centrist allies (28.5%) and the Socialists (PS) Francois Hollande , coming third with 23%.

 In a rare positioning before the elections, the director of the newspaper Le Monde, Jerome Fenogklio, called the party of Marine Le Pen "scam" that "constitutes a serious threat to the country" "Three weeks after the attacks, the country is in a state emergency, elections Sunday received an unexpected historical dimension ", writes the newspaper Le Parisien.