Sunday, September 28, 2014

AFP / Yahoo News: French right win Senate elections in fresh setback for Hollande - "The far-right [in other words, they prefer not to see their grandkids buried under the Third World] National Front (FN), meanwhile, entered the senate for the first time, securing two seats in what its leader Marine Le Pen described as a 'historic victory'."


French right win Senate elections in fresh setback for Hollande

 Marine Le Pen, France's National Front political party leader, delivers a speech at the party's weekend summer university youth meeting in Frejus

 Paris (AFP) - Just three years after France's upper house Senate made history with its first ever swing to the left, the right clawed back a majority Sunday in a new setback for Socialist President Francois Hollande.

 The conservative UMP party of Hollande's predecessor Nicolas Sarkozy and its allies from the centrist UDI won at least 188 seats according to near-final results in the late evening -- 13 seats more than needed for an absolute majority.
The far-right National Front (FN), meanwhile, entered the senate for the first time, securing two seats in what its leader Marine Le Pen described as a "historic victory". ...
An opinion poll this month showed that FN leader Le Pen would beat Hollande in presidential elections in 2017 in the event of a second round run-off between them. ...
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