The French confirmed in the second round of the regionals the triumph of the classical right.

Included in Provence Alps Côte d'Azur (PACA), the region that Marine Le Pen dreamed of ruling.

Bitter awakening.

Outgoing President

Renaud Muselier

hammered far-right hopeful Thierry Mariani: 56% to 44%, according to an IFOP poll for BFMTV.


Two minutes after the polls closed,

Xavier Bertrand,

exulting after his victory in Altos de Francia, appeared with a speech as a candidate for the presidency. "History will remember that here in Hauts de France, twice

we have stopped the extreme right

". In his short but solemn speech he advocated the "Restoration of order" and said that he would not allow any insult to France. "He criticized" the high tax rate and the collapse of public services. "In two words, he

began his presidential campaign.

The abstention continued to break records and

the left retains its perimeter of power.

But the most significant thing is the defeat of the extreme right. That calls into question the strategy of normalization of the leader of the extreme right. They changed the name of the party from National Front to National Meeting (RN); they recognized past mistakes like wanting to get out of the euro; They smoothed out any departure from the Holocaust, they behaved as loyal opposition during the Covid epidemic ...

... And they were swayed by the presidential polls that put Le Pen in the lead (26%) in a duel with President Emmanuel Macron (25%).

The right, in third place;

the left behind.

Far behind.

We will have to wait for new surveys.

For now, Le Pen's house of cards has been blown up: he punctured on the first round.

And he has not been able to conquer the PACA, where his candidate, the former Gaullist Mariani, a friend of Bashar Asad and Putin, was going to be the showcase for his future government.

Muselier, a shady conservative like almost all PACA politics with the support of Macron's supporters from the first round and with the withdrawal of the left in the second, obtained a resounding triumph.

Macron, a leader without a party

Neither the President of the Republic who followed the electoral evening in a petit committee nor the Prime Minister,

Jean Castex,

who shared the evening with several ministers, made any comment. Neither on nor off I have remembered. Silence, let's move on to something else. After their disastrous results in the first round, they hide as if it were not with them. But it does, of course. To the point that Emmanuel Macron was able to choose between three ballots in Le Touquet (Hauts de France): that of the conservative Bertrand, a future rival, that of the left and that of the extreme right. The Elysee said with a small mouth that he had voted "Republican."

The

three tenors on the right

, who are preparing to fight for the presidency of the Republic, confirmed their electoral strength.

Laurent Wauquiez won a resounding victory (55%) in Auvergne.

Xavier Bertrand did not lag behind (53%) in Hauts de France, with the merit that Macron himself launched his troops against him.

Also Valérie Pécresse prevailed (in the Ile de France, the Parisian region, against a unified list of the left.

If we add other less media victories and the one reviewed in the PACA, they can boast of being the best-established force in France.

The opposite pole is the government that has made a fool of itself in these elections.

Macron is a leader without a party.

Weird, weird.

He claimed shall do.

The left saves the furniture.

It is not there to fight for new conquests but it

conserves its regions

. Important nuance, the socialists have to get used to the idea that they must share the spoils of power with the environmentalists. Still in its fiefdoms in Occitania and Nueva Aquitaine, the two regions bordering Spain, the PS was able to suffice with its own forces. In Burgundy and the Center region, he merged his rosters with the greens to ensure victory. And in the Pays de la Loire, it was the environmentalist candidate who led the common candidacy of the left.


In Brittany, voters were able to choose between five lists, a unique case.

This competition will make the winner, the candidate on the left, not have an absolute majority in the regional chamber.

The regional elections are an atypical scrutiny in the French electoral model, traditionally a two-round majority.

The regionals maintain the two rounds with elimination from the lists that do not reach 10% in the first round.

The winner has a bonus that guarantees 25% of the seats.

The rest is distributed by proportional distribution so that the winner has an absolute majority of seats ... unless there are more than three lists.

According to the criteria of The Trust Project

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