On the evening of the first round of the French præsidential elections, I took part in the dépouillement (a strange term meaning a passive or active removal of one’s property, which sounds related to poux (lice), meaning taking everything from someone, including their lice!, but actually originate from despoliare, which also led to despoil) of the votes in the local precinct, which consisted in opening the blue envelopes and sharing the name of the candidate with my colleagues. Surprisingly, there were no null vote and very few empty envelopes. In my rather working class precinct, the far-left candidate, Jean-Luc Mélanchon, came close to the majority of the votes, an indication of a vote utile as the other leftist candidates got hardly any vote. (The far-right candidates got around 20% of the votes.) This clashes with the overall results for my town, where Emmanuel Macron got 40% of the votes.
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Posted in Statistics with tags distorsions.fr, electoral posters, extreme-right, French elections, French politics, French presidents, gilets jaunes, Libé, Marine Le Pen on April 13, 2022 by xi'anit’s complicated…
Posted in pictures, Statistics with tags Corsica, France, French politics, Front National, map, Marine Le Pen, Paris on June 21, 2021 by xi'an
Yesterday saw a first round of the regional and departmental elections in France, with a terribly low participation (around 30% of the voters, except in Corsica where 56% of the voters voted)…. [The map here is about the departmental elections, with departments being delineated in white and the subdivisions corresponding to the cantons. Corse/Corsica is “missing” because it is now a single entity. Same thing about Paris.] The only nice surprise about this outcome is that abstention particularly impacted the lepenist votes, which almost uniformly went down compared with the previous regional elections. And hence that the ill chances that a region gets a nazional majority are lowered. Although it is difficult to analyse why: polls were predicting a brown sludge tsunami, the gilets jaune movement (or morass) is not yet over and mostly aligned with the populist themes of the RN, and (some) people seem unhappy with about any decision taken by any level of authority during the Covid-19 crisis. It will be interesting to watch the second round final results, next week, but I doubt we will see a voting surge happening, esp. since the frontist danger is now downplayed.
11 million French voters voted for the far-right candidate
Posted in Books, Kids, pictures, Travel, University life with tags Dublin, falsehood flies and truth comes limping after it, French elections, Marine Le Pen, Trinity College Dublin on May 8, 2017 by xi'an
God save the Queen, the fascist Marine [hopefully the last quotes!]
Posted in Kids with tags anti-fascism, extreme-right, French elections, Front National, Marine Le Pen, negationism, revisionism, run-off, Russia on May 6, 2017 by xi'an
«I want to destroy the EU, not Europe! The EU is deeply harmful, it is an anti-democratic monster. I want to prevent it from becoming fatter, from continuing to breathe, from grabbing everything with its paws and from extending its tentacles into all areas of our legislation.» M. Le Pen, 3 June 2014
« …the European flag, the one I will banish from official buildings.» M. Le Pen, 18 April 2017
«The issue of [the existence of] gas chambers [in Nazi concentration camps], I think we should be allowed to also discuss this issue.» Jean-François Jalkh [temporary president of Front National] April 2000
«But you think that there is real freedom of the press in France [when compared with Putin’s Russia]? Ninety-nine percent of the journalists are leftists!.» M. Le Pen, 3 June 2014
