It's a funny election night which took place on Sunday March 15 on the television channels which devoted their evening to the results of the first round of the municipal elections. Against the background of the coronavirus which paralyzes the country, and despite the measures taken by the executive, the French were called to the polls to elect their mayors. Very quickly, a number marked the spirits, that of abstention estimated at around 56%. Despite this, the main news channels delivered their first estimates at 8 p.m. With Anne-Claire Coudray and Gilles Bouleau at the helm, TF1 announced the figures of the main cities where prominent political figures offered themselves to the suffrage of their fellow citizens. Among the polls observed closely, that of Perpignan where Louis Alliot, former companion of Marine Le Pen, stood as head of the list of the National Rally. If the latter came out on top, the first channel also announced a rather unexpected result ...
Benjamin Benjamin Griveaux case: Alexandra de Taddeo, this request she just refused
Indeed, at the very end of the classification, the name of Benjamin Griveaux appeared on screens, credited with 47.5% of the votes … A gross error obviously on the part of the chain since the latter, first candidate in Paris, had to withdraw his candidacy following the disclosure of an intimate video concerning him. His last minute replacement, Agnes Buzyn, is also according to first estimates, arrived third in the capital. Paris placed the outgoing mayor widely in the lead Anne Hidalgo, who is nearly 8 points ahead of Rachida Dati, candidate for the Republicans and mayor of the very wealthy 7th arrondissement.
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