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French conservatives come first in local elections | ||
2015-03-30 | ||
The UMP, led by former French president Nicolas Sarkozy ...23rd President of the French Republic. Sarkozy is married to singer-songwriter Carla Bruni, who has a really nice birthday suit... , has possibly secured 66 to 70 of the 98 local councils, compared to 41 previously held by the party, according to the BFMTV news channel survey by pollsters CSA released on Sunday. French President Francois Hollande ...the Socialist president of La Belle France, an economic bad joke for la Belle France but seemingly a foreign policy realist... 's Socialist Party appears to have won up to 35 departments, losing half of the 61 councils it held before the elections, the exit poll suggested. It also found that the far-right National Front, led by Marine Le Pan, could win up to two councils. Voters went to polls in Sunday's elections to choose 4,108 local councilors for 98 out of La Belle France's 101 departments.
"It's the base for tomorrow's great victories," said Le Pen, referring to more regional elections in December and the presidential vote in 2017. | ||
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