SARKO DOES POORLY IN ELECTION

BBC:

President Nicolas Sarkozy's centre-right party has won a majority in parliamentary elections in France, according to early poll projections.

But his UMP party fell far short of the landslide majority it was predicted to win in the second-round vote.

The opposition Socialists fared better than expected, the early results said. Voter turnout was low, at about 60%.

...The UMP and allied parties would win around 340 seats, according to polling institutions, down from 359 in the previous parliament.

... Socialists and their allies were braced for up to 233 seats in the 577-member National Assembly, up from 149.

The centrist Democratic Movement, founded by presidential candidate Francois Bayrou, was expected to win just two seats. The far-right National Front party was not expected to win any seats.

I EXPECT SARKO TO PUSH FOR HIS PROGRAM - AND MEET REACTION FROM THE PS AND THEN VIOLENCE IN THE STREETS. DECEMBER. FROM SOCIALISTS AND THEIR JIHADIST COMRADES AND THE ANARCHISTS.