BreitbartLondon: An emotional Nicolas Sarkozy dropped out of the primary to be the centre-right Les Republicain party nominee for French president today.
Francois Fillon and Alain Juppe progress through to the next round in the race to decide who will likely face off against Front National leader Marine Le Pen in the country’s presidential elections next year.
Reuters reports:
Former prime ministers Francois Fillon and Alain Juppe were seen qualifying for a second round runoff of France’s conservative primaries on Sunday, first partial results of the vote showed, in what would be a major upset for ex-president Nicolas Sarkozy.
If the voting trend is confirmed the two men will go head-to-head on Nov. 27, with the winner of that contest likely to win election as France’s next president in May.
According to results based on 6,491 polling stations out of a total 10,228, Fillon was seen gathering 43.5 percent of the votes, Juppe 27.6 percent and Sarkozy 22.1 percent, with the gap with Sarkozy widening from the first partial results.
But while the establishment media and the polls still stress a likely victory for Les Republicains over the Front National next year, Ms. Le Pen improved her position against Mr. Sarkozy ahead of today’s primary. read more
He finally got tired of standing up and nobody noticing.
After Hollande comes the Deluge. France is headed for a Civil War no matter who gets elected. They are just a few massacres away from coming apart from trying to pair wine and cheese with Allah.
Don’t quite understand this. It sounds like the race next year is going to be between a centre-right candidate (either Juppe or Fillion) and Ms. La Pen, the farther right candidate of the National Front Party. Are there no left wing or socialist candidates running for Prime Minister?
Yeah, I don’t know, French politics has always confused me. Other than the fact that they’ve been picking assholes for a while.
What ever happened to the Dutch guy, Hollande?