Since I wrote my last article (here) explaining the situation surrounding the elections of the Conseil Régional PACA (Provence-Alpes-Cote D’Azur) we have had an important development! Hubert Falco, who was widely tipped as the man to wrangle PACA from the Socialists, has officially refused orders to lead the UMP list. The papers (including myself) were [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
