President Sarkozy and his ruling UMP party suffered a significant defeat. According to projections, the Socialists win in the regional elections in France.
defeat to Nicolas Sarkozy: The regional election is considered an important test before the 2012 presidential election. Photo: dpa
French President Nicolas Sarkozy and his ruling UMP party appear to have suffered a significant electoral defeat. According to initial projections reached the UMP in regional elections on Sunday the national average is only 27 percent. The opposition Socialists, however, achieved 30 percent. The Alliance held its Écologie Europe with 13 percent as the third force in the party spectrum, in the extreme-right Front National, the sections with 11 percent of surprisingly strong.
smaller, far-left parties gained total of 8 percent. The Centre Party MoDem came on for her disappointing 3.5 percent.
Overall, the left bearing is considerably better than the right. The turnout is said to have amounted to less than 50 percent. This would be a negative record for France.
The vote was considered an important test before the 2012 presidential election. Traditionally, the regional elections are used to punish the president and his government. Pollsters had therefore expected a defeat for Sarkozy's UMP party. The Socialist Party leader Martine Aubry in hoping, this time all the 22 regions on the mainland and four overseas regions to win. Whether such expectations are fulfilled, will first be seen in the second round next Sunday. In the 2004 elections, the Left already all regions except Corsica and Alsace, had won.
The regions correspond in size German states, with fewer skills. The regional vote is complicated. In all regions where this Sunday, no party gained an absolute majority, it is on 21 March to the second round. Then, only parties to compete, in the first round, reached more than ten percent of the vote. They are allowed to parties that received more than five percent to combine lists. In the coming days there will be tough negotiations. After the election results from Sunday is the base of the left-effective than the right. Sarkozy has announced to continue in any case, his reforms and to hold even with a defeat in regional elections in his previous government.
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