France 2012: Official Results Thread

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Ah, Béziers. Fond memories.

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At 5 PM turnout was 70,59% according to the Huffington Post.

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France 2's election night broadcast starts in 25 minutes. Is it the best place to watch results?

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Are we also supposed to abstain from commenting on certain trends in any 'leaked' exit poll results (, which of course the rtbf has been reporting without any trace of restraint since they've got their paws on them)?

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With Le Pen doing insanely well, does that bode a shift from the usual pattern of the FN sucking at elections for the National Assembly?  With this much higher a level of support, surely it's nearing the tipping point where they'll start squeaking through even with France's electoral system.

Presidential elections aren't Assemblée elections, and I don't think there are a lot of chances for the FN to get more than 50% in a two-way election anywhere in France.

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On the whole that first exit poll seems to have made Le Pen's showing slightly worse than it actually appears to be, right now. Still, the Far Right really seems to underpoll always. Also Melenchon

Oh well, at least Hollande looking good.

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It also is significantly less nice than, say, Languedoc-Rousillon on most other terrains.

Just saying in case you'd ever be planning a holiday.

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Btw, I thought Melenchon's speech yesterday struck most of the right notes from the perspective of getting rid of Sarkozy. 'Fight without asking anything in return, only the privilege of being able to fight.' That attitude should probably guarantee a quite easy transfer of support towards Hollande.

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Results in Israel (7,196 total votes):

Sarkozy: 82.74%
Hollande: 7.62%
MLP: 3.99%

Who would those voters be? Mostly French Jews living in Israel but not (yet) naturalized, or just the usual expat population? Those numbers make me sort of suspect the former.

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Quote from Francois. Please tell me i'm understanding that wrong...

I would like to know how you understand it, because it doesn't seem all that controversial a quote to me.

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I'm feeling like putting my neck out in an area where there are numerous native speakers of French around: 'Contester' here means something like: 'to attack, to bring into question'.

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Perhaps most curious spot: Panzergirl won the all-important country of South Sudan with a whopping 4 votes. I wonder what those voters are like...

You wouldn't want to know.

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Hollande: 51.90

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That last minute Sarko bump appears to have been real, though.

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I love the 'The President has left the Elysée' routine the French media perform on election night. What's the added value of some motorbike-riding camera risking his life trying to film the tainted windows of Sarko's car?

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Does it really matter who runs France?  I mean, isn't the international economic/debt leash on it so tight now, that the government's only big decision is what color of pencils to use?  Just asking.

You're in the wrong thread. That'd be Greece.

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Sarko's audience is really rather noisy and all around annoying.

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To be fair 48+% for Sarko would just be obscene. Let's hope it's close to IFOP's 47.2%

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I believe the anti christ will be a socialist, so for him to control europe, he will need socialist governments in place. I believe that we are seeing bible prophecy fulfilled. These people don't want balanced budgets, they don't want austerity, and many don't want to work, they want a nanny government to take care of them, and this is why the anti christ will be so well received. I can see his campaign slogan now, TRUST ME, I WILL TAKE CARE OF YOU, it will require a little mark though, in your hand or forehead. I believe he will confiscate the wealth of the developed countries, and the wealth left behind by raptured saints. THis will cause commerce to prosper, as the Bible says. Just imagine the stimulus effect this would have. I believe we might already know this man, although I don't have a clue who he is.

Okay is this a literal quote from NHMagic? Otherwise you've really got the way of writing/thinking down.

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Isn't the north of France larger than it should be

What are you, a Flemish irredentist?

We'll happily take back all the bits this side of Kales, but it must be clear that it would be unacceptable for the arrogant francophones who have chosen to live there to get linguistical facilities.