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Originally Posted by MrTerrorist
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Yes, there are 11 for the whole world.
1. USA / Canada
2. South and Central America
3. Northern Europa (including "London")
4. Benelux
5. Spain, Portugal, Monaco and Andorra
6. Switerland / Germany
7. Eastern Europa (from Germany to the Black Sea)
8. Southern Europa (Italy and northern shore of the Mediterranean Sea)
9. Northwest Africa
10. Rest of Africa and Middle East
11. Rest of the World (that thing between Ukraine and Australia I guess it shows how France doesn't exist in Asia ? Or maybe the french there are all commie and Sarkozy didn't want to give too many MP ?)
I didn't read the whole article, but those new MP are basically ghosts created by the old majority (Sarkozy's) for two purposes :
increase the number of seats likely to be gained by them. (frenchmen living abroad are NOT likely to be socialists) Although it's not working as expected since the left topped 7 of the 11 districts. (but it's still the first round)
Recreate a link between people living in their own country and the emigrated ones. It has never been said loudly, but since one of the hot debates going on in the country is whether the non-french should be allowed to take part to local elections in France, the old majority (whose answer is a non-negotiable "FUCK NO") is saying that if those people want to vote, they can ask to vote in their home country like the emigrated french can do and let the french affairs to the french.
No one gives a shit about those elections. I don't remember hearing the expatried french asking for those MP and the news of the creation of those MP didn't seem that well received.
The participation was not 20% in the first round which is extremely low for french standards. (Although it may due to a glitch, I hear there was a Java Update this week that completely messed the internet vote and since there weren't many offices, it was hard for them to go vote in person)