France/ regional: Sarkozy’s party clearly outstripped
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PARIS- the right’s lists supporting President Nicolas Sarkozy should be clearly forestalled in regional elections next two Sundays in France, confirmed the latest polls published Friday.
- According to a survey by CSA in ‘Le Parisien’, lists dominated by the right presidential party UMP collect only 27.5% of voting intentions for the first round, which will take place Sunday. The Socialist Party (PS) and ecologists, who should join between the two rounds would achieve 29.5% respectively and 15%, according to the survey.
Another TNS-Sofres Logica for France Televisions, Radio France and Le Monde, also released Friday, gave the Socialists 30% and 14% to environmentalists, against 29% to the right.
The National Front, the far-right party of Jean-Marie Le Pen, is credited with respectively 9.5% and 8.5% in both surveys.
The left already runs 24 of the 26 French regions (including overseas). It hopes to achieve the "grand slam", i.e. control all French regions, the outcome of this midterm election, which could turn into protest vote against Nicolas Sarkozy.
This is the last intermediate before the presidential elections 2012.
Nicolas Sarkozy assured that these regional elections will not have national implications. "The election of 14 and 21 March is regional, their consequences will therefore be regional," he said in an interview Friday in Le Figaro Magazine. But he added that he would be "attentive to what the French say.
Similarly, he ruled out any major reshuffle, although "some government changes" are not excluded.
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Ennaharonline/ M. O.
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