Τουλάχιστον 10 δημάρχους εκλέγει η Λεπέν- Σε ανασχηματισμό θα προχωρήσει ο Φρανσουά Ολάντ Τουλάχιστον 10 Δημάρχους και 12.000 δημοτικούς συμβούλους εκλέγει το Κόμμα της Μαρίν Λεπεν (FN) σύμφωνα με τις πρώτες ανταποκρίσεις από τη Γαλλία. Λίγες μόλις εβδομάδες πριν από τις ευρωεκλογές όπου το εθνικιστικό κόμμα της Μαρίν Λεπεν αναμένεται να αναδειχθεί ως μια από τις σημαντικότερες δυνάμεις .
Οι δημοτικές εκλογές δείχνουν πως οι ευρωφοβικές δυνάμεις λαμβάνουν πολλές ψήφους ενώ το Παρίσι φαίνεται πως περνά στους Σοσιαλιστές Η Αν Iνταλγκό, υποψήφια του κυβερνώντος Σοσιαλιστικού Κόμματος θα γίνει η πρώτη γυναίκα δήμαρχος στο Παρίσι, καθώς φέρεται να επικρατεί με 54,5% της Ναταλί Κοσιουσκό-Μοριζέ, υποψήφιας του κεντροδεξιού UMP για το δήμο του Παρισιού, σύμφωνα εκτιμήσεις των ινστιτούτων Ifop και SAS για το τηλεοπτικό δίκτυο i-Tele. Η 54χρονη Αν Iνταλγκό, το δεξί χέρι του απερχόμενου σοσιαλιστή δημάρχου Μπερτράν Ντελανοέ, επικράτησε της αντιπάλου της Ναταλί Κοσιουσκό-Μοριζέ, 40 ετών και συνεργάτη του πρώην προέδρου Νικολά Σαρκοζί που είχε επικρατήσει στον πρώτο γύρο των εκλογών. Η Μοριζέ φέρεται να λαμβάνει ποσοστό 45,5% των ψήφων. Ο Φρανσουά Ολάντ θα προχωρήσει σε ανασχηματισμό της κυβέρνησης του Ερό για να μην χρεωθεί την πλήρη αποτυχία του στις τοπικές εκλογές.
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Battered Socialists hold Paris, as far right makes gains in local elections
Socialist Anne Hidalgo won her face-off against right-wing UMP
candidate Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet in Paris, while France’s far right
made gains in the second round of municipal elections on Sunday.
The Socialist Party will remain in control of Paris, with Anne Hidalgo winning roughly 54.5 percent of votes against UMP candidate Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet, according to exit polls.Hidalgo, who has served for 13 years as deputy to outgoing Paris Mayor Bertrand Delanoë, will become the first female mayor of the capital.
Victories in Paris and Lyon came as consolation for the ruling Socialists, who suffered heavy defeats against the UMP in cities across the country, including Toulouse, Angers and Limoges.
But the biggest story of the night seemed to be the strong showing by the far right, with National Front leader Marine Le Pen boasting of victories in “at least six cities”.
Exit polls showed National Front (FN) candidate David Rachline winning in Fréjus, a sleepy Côte d’Azur town, while Robert Ménard, an FN-backed candidate (though he is not a party member himself) and founder of Reporters Without Borders, won in Béziers.
Avignon, another city closely watched by FN partisans, ended up in the hands of the Socialists, with Cécile Helle getting 47.2 percent of the vote against far-right candidate Philippe Lottiaux, who won 34.7 percent, according to exit polls.
Lottiaux came out on top in the first-round vote last Sunday, prompting the head of the city’s famed theatre festival to say the event would look for a new host city if the National Front ended up at city hall.
Meanwhile, exit polls had UMP candidate Jean-Claude Gaudin headed for a fourth term as mayor of Marseille.
Low turnout
As of 5 p.m. (GMT+2), turnout was estimated at 52.36 percent (a historic low for French municipal elections), the interior ministry said – even lower than the 54.72 percent turnout reported after the first-round vote last Sunday.
President François Hollande is tipped to react to his ruling Socialist Party’s losses by ordering a cabinet reshuffle that could see the popular Interior Minister Manuel Valls installed as Prime Minister, replacing current premier Jean-Marc Ayrault.
There have also been reports that Hollande is seeking to ramp up the pro-business credentials of his government by bringing veteran industrialist Louis Gallois or former World Trade Organisation director Pascal Lamy into the cabinet.
Hollande told his ministers on Wednesday that they needed to "learn a lesson" from the Socialists' poor showing in the first round in which the left took 38.2 percent of the vote, compared to 46.44 percent for the right.
The news that made headlines the morning after the first round, though, was the strong performance by Marine Le Pen’s far-right National Front (FN) party, which took five percent of the vote in last week’s polling, up from 0.9 percent in the first round of the last municipal polls in 2008, despite only being able to field candidates in a minority of municipalities.
The FN has already claimed the mayor's seat in Henin-Beaumont in northern France, having secured more than 50 percent of the vote in the first round.
The party has controlled a handful of local authorities, including the major port of Toulon, in the past. But their administrations were frequently tainted by allegations of mismanagement and cronyism which led to voters kicking them out at the first opportunity.
Le Pen, who has made strenuous efforts to forge a new, more respectable image for the party founded by her father Jean-Marie, claims the FN has matured in terms of the quality of its candidates for office.
"The only glass ceiling we have not broken through is being able to show what we are capable of doing," she says in an interview with Saturday's edition of Le Monde.
"What we lack at the moment is a positive report card. That is important. With that we can move to a higher level."
(FRANCE 24 with AFP, Reuters)
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