L'élection présidentielle

Hollande en tête. #Hollande2012. I hope he wins. This is a good sign, but it's best not to get too cocky. Actually, it's the first time that an incumbent president didn't win the first round in reelection. Granted, that's only three times (Giscard, Mitterrand, Chirac), but all are very very different situations. 1981 was the first win for the left in the history of the Vth Republic. 1988, Mitterrand reelection. 2002 was the strangest 1st round ever, because the PM Jospin lost by 0,5% to JM Le Pen with 16,7%. Chirac both rounds.

These are the front pages of the three main newspapers:

Here is Le Monde, to the center-left

Here is Libération, to the left

Here is Le Figaro to the right. They have the best graphics, unfortunately.

I was watching TF1's coverage. They had Cécile Duflot (EELV), NKM (UMP), Jean-François Copé (UMP), Pierre Moscovici (PS), Martine Aubry (PS), and others from the PCF, Modem, and FN, but I already forgot who they were. The debate got so heated and annoying that I had to turn it off. I was watching to get coverage of the speeches, but they were favoring the debate over the speeches, so I'll just wait and watch them later on tonight. More commentary then. But Jean-Luc Mélenchon has already proclaimed his support for Hollande.