French elections ... First Round

Here is another great interactive map from lemonde.fr (results by Departments)

http://www.lemonde.fr/web/vi/0,47-0@2-823448,54-899917@51-899913,0.html

not a lot to say about this first round...

Most positive point for me: Le Pen lost 1 million votes since 2002, people understood that he is not the one to vote for just to challenge the system, which is good, but but... guess a lot of these "votes protestataires" went to Besancenot and the Ligue Communiste Revolutionnaire, which I am not a big fan of. 15.4% of abstention, not bad at all, almost 60% of abstention for the french people abroad (yeah... time to rethink to adminitsrative requirements to sign up with the consulates, it sucks when you work, and I am sure it is worst in some other cities/countries, at least in SF we have a consulate!!)

second round in two weeks, we will see...