Socialists win majority in French parliament

The Socialist Party has won a majority in French parliamentary election run-off on Sunday.
The Socialists and their left-wing allies have won between 312 and 326 seats, while the Union for a Popular Movement is projected to win about a hundred seats less.

French Socialists heading to win parliament

President Francois Hollande’s Socialist Party and its Greens Party allies lead the first round of France’s Sunday parliamentary election. That is according to polling agencies and preliminary official results.

France – “Hollande” – new France’s President

Vive Hollande!             Sarkozy   Baga!   
Denisova Olga (May 7, 2012 )

France has elected its new President – Francois Hollande who scored 51.67% defeating the incumbent President Nicolas Sarkozy with 48.33%. Leftists took the helm again after a 17-year break. Sarkozy admitted his defeat and decided to quit big politics.

Hollande wins first round with 28.5 per cent

By: RT

Photo: EPA

Francois Hollande has secured 28.5 per cent of the votes cast in the first round of the presidential elections, with half of the ballots counted. Nicholas Sarkozy is trailing his Socialist rival with 26 per cent of the vote.

France votes: Polls report solid turnout – RT

Millions of French have cast their votes at the polling stations to determine the future of France for the next five years. But do any of the 10 candidates offer a real solution to France’s actual problems?

Hollande in lead, but runoff likely in French poll

Laaska News  Apr.22, 2012

Incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy is apparently trailing Socialist challenger Francois Hollande in the first round of France’s presidential election, due to be held on Sunday.

‘Sarkozy cozy with Islamists’ – Le Pen

 

Leader of France’s National Front and presidential candidate Marine Le Pen has called attention to close political and economic ties between the administration of Nicolas Sarkozy and the authorities of Qatar.

Libya at odds with France over Gaddafi’s spy chief

Libya and France are both demanding the extradition of the former head of Gaddafi’s intelligence agency from Mauritania, where Abdullah al-Senussi was arrested in the small hours of Saturday when he arrived from Morocco with a fake Malian passport.

Syrian troops capture Frenchmen in Homs

Laaska News Mar. 2, 2012

Assem Qanso, ex-Lebanese Minister told reporters on Friday that the Syrian government troops captured over 100 French soldiers when suppressing a riot in the volatile northern city of Homs.

Sarkozy orders new genocide law

France’s President Nicolas Sarkozy has ordered parliament to prepare a new bill stipulating sanctions for the denial of the genocide against Armenians during World War I.