French Presidential Election 22 April 2007 Thread

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Megret was the n°2 of the FN before his "putch-putch" in 1998. Today, he supports Le Pen and I think that his voters too.

Who did he endorse in the second round in 2002? IIRC a lot of his voters actually went with Chirac.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

What is the Alleanza Nazionale (12% of the vote last election) if it's not Fascist? Sure, not as bad as Le Pen and Co., but still...

[Filuwaúrdjan]

BBC mentions a poll saying Sarkozy 29%, Royal 25%, Bayrou 15%, Le Pen 13%

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A note about coverage here; as soon as the polls close, this thread will be locked and a Results/Analysis thread will be opened. I'll probably then re-open this one in a few days time.

Oh, one more thing. Anyone interested in a prediction contest?

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Let's extend this a little further; predict the best Region and best Department for each of the major candidates (or for all the candidates if thee liketh).

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Big talk from someone who hasn't even posted a general prediction yet!

I'm in about three minds over this actually...

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Do you mean the results by department or?

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Do remember that some parts of Paris were Chirac's 'fiefdom.' Without him it will be interesting to see how things go.

Paris proper was, yes (but not the extent that the Correze (and some areas bordering on Correze) was. Curiously Francois Hollande's seat is in Correze) but Paris is not the entire Ille de France; Sarkozy himself is based in the inner western suburbs (Hautes-de-Seine).

Might as well add that about the other candidates... Royal is based in Deux-Sevres and Bayrou is based in the Pau area. Le Pen is from Morbihan but he never does very well there (better than the rest of Brittany though).

Not sure where Besancenot or Laguiller are from, Buffet is a machine politician based just outside St Denis, Bové is (of course) based in Aveyron, Voynet used to have a seat in Jura (based around the amusingly named Dole), De Villiers is based in the Vendee.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

O.K people, this thread is now closed. For now. Results thread open in a sec...