Who really did win the Bye-election in Doubs yesterday ? One could legitimately ask this question !
The official result is that the Socialist Party (PS) candidate, Frédéric Barbier, defeated Sophie Montel, the National Front (FN) candidate, by 800 votes ! The PS polled 51.43 %, the FN polled 48.57 % of the votes ! There were 9.51% less abstentions in the second round run-off.
Officially UMP, whose candidate was eliminated in the first round with 26.54% of the votes, appealed to its electors to vote neither for FN nor for PS. However, certain leaders like Juppé and Kosciusko-Morizet said they would personnally vote for the Socialist Candidate. As for Sarkozy, the President of UMP, he proposed a vote for the Socialists, or a blank vote, or an abstention from voting ! Above all, no vote for FN !
In the absense of complete agreement by UMP, some of their electors did not hesitate to vote for FN ! This resulted in a very small victory by the Socialists.
This is not only a setback for UMP but a serious warning of what could happen in forthcoming elections !
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