Second round here we come...

It's been a rollercoaster ride of a French presidential election campaign, the results of the first round came in this morning!

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France voted Macron and LePen into the second round in May.

However, here in French Polynesia, we voted Fillon (supported by our president Edouard Fritch, above right), followed by LePen (supported by his estranged father-in-law Gaston Flosse, above left). Never mind the serious fraud charges Fillon and his wife Penelope face!
Here in Rurutu, it wasn't even a vote for a political party, but a vote with or against M. le Maire Fréderic Riveta. Fillon or Riveta won, with LePen (the mayor's rivals and supporters of Flosse, the most condemned politician in French history!) trailing in second place...

As for the socialists, they didn't register. The local socialist, pro-independence party, had supported the ex-Polynesian president Oscar Temaru as a candidate, but he didn't make the list, so, he advised his supporters to abstain, in Faa'a, Oscar Temaru's home constituency, 74% of the voters stayed at home (61% overall!).

Hard to believe if it wasn't true....