Il Marine Le Pen's Front National it is the first party of France. Less than a month after the attacks that rocked Paris and Europe, the French went to the polls to choose who will lead the new French macro-regions which will come into force on January XNUMX next year.
In calculating the total number of votes, Marine Le Pen beat Nicolas Sarkozy's new party by one percentage point (27,96% won by the Front National against 26,89% by the Les Republicains/Udi coalition). More suffering the Socialist Party which, at national level, collects only 23,33% of the preferences.
The reform of the regions (from the previous 22 to the current 13) therefore brings luck to Marine Le Pen and highlights the great difficulties within the Socialist Party of the President of the Republic, François Hollande.
The choice of Marine and Marion Le Pen to take the field in first person also moved the balance towards the Front National. The far-right leader received 41% of the total votes in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais-Picardie region, trailing the right-wing coalition by 15 percentage points and the left-wing by 24 points. Primacy also for the daughter Marion who wins the first round in the Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Amur region with 34,9% of the preferences.
