PACA is one of the 23 regions of France, it stands for Provence-Alpes-Cote D’Azur. The capital is Marseilles, which holds the regional assembly where most of the elected Regional Councillors work. I visited there once when they had some sort of big session going on ; it’s rather like any other hemicycle based parliament, and [...]
Vincent Peillon, Socialist MEP for the South-East (my neck of the woods) is in the process of gathering a coalition of the Left to present a united front. As a young politician, it’s likely that he is setting himself up as a credible candidate for the Presidency. Though he has ruled out running in 2012, [...]
On Sunday night, I received the results to Round 1 of the by-election. They make for interesting reading! I had to deal with it in an Excel spreadsheet and figure out who was who, but YOU get this nice handy chart: So, there are a number of interesting conclusions I draw from this. (Note the French [...]
On Sunday, habitants of the 6th canton (district of a town) of Nice will go to the polls to elect a new Conseiller Général (It’s kind of like a Local Councillor). This is a by-election, after the elected UMP candidate was disqualified for breaking the rules on funding. The area in question is Nice 6, [...]
Less than a month in France and I have already been making news! Today I was featured in the local newspaper, Nice-Matin, on page 4. See below the article and below that, my translation: Un jeune travailliste au stage au PS La fédération socialiste des A.-M. accueille, pour un stage de six mois, Hadleigh, un jeune [...]
