USPA NEWS - The French regional and departmental elections (13 regions, and 101 departments) held last Sunday, paved the way to the upcoming presidential elections (10 and 24 April 2022), showing a dramatic record of 68% abstention rate. This could make a difference, and break the entire legacy of the LREM (French Presidential Majority) hit affected by ricochet by a negative result, ie none of the 13 regions, conquered by the party of the majority LREM, especially the region of Hauts de France, where five ministers of the party of the current government made minimal scores, vis-a-vis the big winner Xavier Bertrand, with a score of 42.1% of the right-wing LR party (the Republicans) the outgoing president of this region of northern France. Herve Morin the President, Center Right, (Party of the centrists) of the Normandy Region is also in the lead, with 35.1% followed by Nicolas Bey of RN the extreme right party of Marine le Pen, with 20.4%. In the Auvergne Rhone-Alpes region, Laurent Wauquiez, of the right-wing LR party (the Republicans), the outgoing president of this region also made a very good score of 42.7%...

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