The National Front is not led by the French regions – Russian newspaper

National Front, led by Marine Le Pen failed to win in the second round of regional elections, despite the fact that the first he has achieved unprecedented results, gaining more votes in six of the 12 regions of France.

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According to preliminary data, the Socialist Party was able to retain the five regions, and the opposition center-right party “Republicans” got until six. The fate of the 12-th of the capital in the Ile-de-France, which is not yet finished counting the votes will be determined later, and then it will be clear to go if he is moderately rules that the election represented ally Nicolas Sarkozy Valérie Pécresse, or he will remain in the hands of the Socialists, the ruling is the latest fifteen years.

Note in this election were focused on several regions, where it was considered a great chance of winning were at Natsfronta. First and foremost, the region Nord-Pas-de-Calais where she ran Marine Le Pen in the first round received 40.6 percent of the vote. Her rival “Republican” Xavier Bertrand has been an order of magnitude less, only 25 per cent. However, in the second round, he received more than 57 percent of the vote, won a landslide victory over the leader of “frontisti”.

The same pattern has developed in the south of France. In the region of Provence-Alpes-Cote d’Azur niece of Marine Le Pen – 26-year-old Marion Maréchal-Le Pen with approximately the same score in the first round beat the mayor of Nice and the deputy of the National Assembly of the “Republican” Christian Estrosi. But here, in the second round of the National Front vydvizhenka fiasco. A similar story occurred in the eastern region of Alsace, Champagne-Ardenne, Lorraine, where the vice-president of the NF Florian Filippo walked another supporter of Nicolas Sarkozy – Philippe Richer.

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It is a legitimate question: why Natsfronta could not build on the success achieved in the first round of the local elections? Apparently, the answer must be sought in the tactics resorted to by his opponents in the first place the ruling Socialist Party. Immediately after a very unfortunate, to say the least, the first round of their National Secretary Jean-Christophe Kambadelis, firstly, urged all left without exception – the Communists, “green” and the Left Front, and others to unite to fight back Natsfronta.

Second, he gave an indication of the Socialist Party candidates to withdraw their candidacies in the regions where their positions were clearly weak, and vote for the “Republican” in order to erect an insurmountable barrier to the candidates Natsfronta. Party discipline has worked in precisely those areas where ran prominent figures NF – Marine Le Pen, her niece, Marion, and Florian Filippo.

It may be assumed that also played a role strict verbal attacks on Natsfronta from a number of left-wing politicians. Thus, the socialist Prime Minister Manuel Valls suggested that “frontisti” could lead to a split and the “civil war”, but the party itself has expressed in that spirit that she supposedly preaches racism and anti-Semitism.

All this taken together affected the election results, the participation in the second round of which, we note, has taken nearly 10 percent more voters than in the first.

The results of the elections will long to analyze both the parties themselves and in specialized centers. Despite the setback, the National Front still loudly declared itself by typing in the first round, about 29 percent of the vote, which is almost three times more than in similar elections six years ago. Marine Le Pen failed to rein in any region, but in the regional councils of its representatives will now have to order more.

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