As expected Nicolas Sarkozy has been comfortably elected as President of the UMP party after a storming tour of French cities to gather the support of Party faithfuls.
However, the analysis of the results below does reveal that there are clouds on the horizon !
% %
Sarkozy........ 100 159 37.3 64.5
Lemaire........ 45 317 16.9 29.2
Mariton......... 9 809 3.7 6.3
Voters........... 155 285 57.9 100.0
Abstentions. 112 951 42.1
Electorate...... 268 236 100.0
Sarkozy was elected as the new President of the UMP party with 64.5 % of the votes cast, but only 37.3 % of the enfranchised UMP party members who did actually vote.
Sarkozy wants to modernise the UMP party and mobilise the help of everyone around him ! His personal goal is to become the official UMP party candidate in 2017. To eliminate all the opposition he can, he has promised to hold Primary elections !
Besides Sarkozy, there are at least two other potential Presidential candidates:
Alain Juppe (aged 69) and François Fillon (aged 60) who served Sarkozy as his Prime Minister for five years during his first Presidential mandate. Their supporters are hidden in the "abstentions" figure above !
Will Juppe and Fillion toe the line ? Or will they try to create new parties to attract the support of disenchanted "floating" MPs and their supporters in the centre of the political Spectrum ?
One must not forget that in France the National Front, or Extreme Right, has made major gains in all recent elections. Its leader, Marine Lepen could be one of the two candidates in the run off for the Presidency !
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