François Hollande won and Martine Aubry was runner-up, just as was forecast in the recent opinion polls.
The first big surprise however, was Arnaud Montebourg who obtained an unexpected 17.3% of the votes and who thus pushed Ségolène Royale into fourth place with a miserable 6.8% of the votes polled. She was in tears !!!
This is quite understandable as she was the losing Socialist candidate against Nicolas Sarkozy in the Presidential run-off five years ago. The official final poll results of about 2.5 million voters expected later to-day, will look like this;
François Hollande 38.8 %
Martine Aubry 30.7
Arnaud Montebourg 17.3
Segolène Royale 6.8
Manuel Valls 5.8
Jean-Michel Baylet 0.6
There is another poignante story which merits being retold now. Five years ago François Hollande was the secretary of the Socialist Party but also the Companion of Ségolène with whom he had four children. (Ségolène and François separated shortly afterwards). The Official spokesman of Ségolène was Arnaud Montebourg !!! Four months before Ségolène lost the Presidential run-off against Nicolas Sarkozy he was asked what was the major handicap Ségolène had ? His immediate reply was "François Hollande" !!! He at once added, "It's just a joke !!! It's just a joke !!!". A joke no one has forgotten !!! Ségolène immediately suspended him as her Spokesman for a month !!!
The next round is the Socialist run-off between Hollande and Martine Aubry next Sunday, the 16th of October. The winner becomes the official sponsored candidate of the Socialist Party in the Presidential Election in April 2012.
Will this be against outgoing President Nicolas Sarkozy ? Nothing official has yet been said.
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