French UMP leadership election, 2012

[Kitteh]

French politics has gone from hopeful to extremely depressing in such a short time.

[Kitteh]

Can someone tell me what the different UMP "movements" stand for? I know the Droite Populaire is the right-wing Copeist faction, but what do those others mean?

[Kitteh]

Don't know if this actually matters but I made a map of the largest motions in each department:


Red: La Droite Forte
Blue: La Droite Sociale
Green: France Moderne et Humaniste
Yellow: Le Gaullisme
Brown: La Droite Populare
Aqua: La Boîte à idées
Grey: Tie

[Kitteh]

"France Moderne et Humaniste" won Alpes-Maritimes? LOL. Must be some local baron, I guess.

The results seem all over the place to me, which probably means a bunch of local factors at play. There were some areas where one motion would get 40% in one department and 10% in all the ones surrounding it. The funniest thing to me was that Le Gaullisme won 75% in Mayotte, the highest of any motion anywhere.

[Kitteh]

Wow, I had no idea VGE was still alive. I guess he's about the same era as Jimmy Carter, though.