Socialists’ Election Loss Shows People Fed Up With Hollande's Policies

MOSCOW (Sputnik), Yulia Shamporova – The defeat of the Socialist party in the final round of the departmental elections in France is a clear message from the French people, showing that they despise the policies advocated by the president and the current government, an adviser for the leader of the National Front party Marine Le Pen, told Sputnik on Monday.

“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.

“More and more signs [show] that we are breaking through whatever the system is… Before these elections we only had one county [department] member, and now we have 62. Where we have mayors, people voted massively for our candidates in these areas… [this is] a sign of good reputation,” de Danne said.

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.