Elections in 3 french political parties
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Article published on 4 June 2025
last modification on 5 June 2025

by Matthieu Giroux

Let’s start with party that finished 4th in the 2017 presidential elections, according to ex-journalists from Sud Ouest on Agoravox TV. It’s Solidarity and Progress. The Solidarity and Progress office is elected each year in September during the association’s general assembly.

Let’s continue with the political parties that are in minority in 2025 but were popular until the presidency of François Hollande. The Socialist Party has along used paper ballots for its elections. These were the most regular elections of all political parties. Televised debates had been organized for Ségolène Royal’s election, who had really received militants’ approval in 2006. But Ségolène Royal should have been elected national secretary of socialist party in 2007. Indeed, every socialist party’s leaders asked to cheat in their stronghold to elect Martine Aubry, who was an outsider but appreciated by media after Delanoé, a liberal. Martine Aubry was conservative until she chose the compressed air engine for Lille city hall. So she sustained Ségolène Royal after. We have spotted in all Socialist party’s conservative strongholds ballot boxes overfilled with fake ballots in 2007. Then socialist party’s activists thought that François Hollande was like Ségolène Royal. Indeed, Ségolène Royal had started his campaign well with France’s sovereignism. But right after, she is not appreciated on television. So she campaigned on media denigration, that activists do not like. Then she will always be denigrated by PS office, which activists will feel irregular only for a little part of them.

Nicolas Sarkozy inaugurated the elections into UMP’ party and then to the Republicans. But UMP’s elections were done with laptops. So it was always the Republicans’ office that decided the elections. So initially it was Sarkozy and then it was financial that decided always against activists’ vote.


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