“The fact that the Socialist party has lost the elections is a strong message from the French people. It was supposed to be a local election, but it’s been a huge national test. It shows that most of the French really despise what the Socialist government and the president has been doing for the last years,” Ludovic de Danne told Sputnik.
De Danne emphasized that the elections’ results show that the French ruling party has failed on the economy, on unemployment, on security, on terrorism, because it has refused to challenge the European Union policy and has just accepted it as it is.
On Sunday, France voted in the second round of local elections that saw the National Front come second with a significant number of seats. Former President Nicolas Sarkozy's conservative UMP managed to edge ahead of Le Pen's party, gaining at least in 65 local councils. France's ruling Socialist party and its leader Francois Hollande suffered a major blow having lost in about 30 departments.