Clear Overwhelming Victory for the Union Nationale in the Monegasque Elections

The National Elections have been put to bed. Unsurprisingly the Union Nationale led by the President of the Conseil National Brigitte Boccone-Pagès has emerged the majority party winning handsomely. Fortunately the voter turn-out was over 50 % at 57 %. The opposition party, the NIM, didn’t garner enough votes to qualify for proportional representation in the Chamber. Each candidate in the Union Nationale received on average just over 3000 votes with the stand-outs being Nathalie Amoratti-Blanc and Balthazar Seydoux with one hundred to one hundred fifty extra votes. The “minority party” the NIM with a small list of 14 candidates had Jean-Charles Tonelli and Daniel Boéri heading their results with between 700 and 800 votes each but in the end to no avail just not enough overall to be in the Chamber. The Union Nationale’s 24 candidates racked up 72,602 votes against 8,401 for those just 14 candidates on the NIM list and thus take up all the seats in the Conseil National.

Jimmy Gressier breaks European 5km record at the Monaco Run

The event, organized by the Monegasque Athletics Federation and which obtained the World Athletics Label this year, was split into two parts. On February 11th 170 runners — including around thirty from the AS Monaco Athletics School — took part in the traditional 1,000m on Port Hercule. Sunday February 12th, three races were on the program: the City Trail, the 5km Herculis and the 10km APM Monaco. This year, on the City Trail, Adrien Janin took first place with a time of 53:11. Maximilien Duquesne and Valentin Bouthier (AS Monaco) complete the podium in 54:03 and 55:28. Only a few minutes behind were the fastest women just a smidgeon off the hour mark. Nathalie Favreau won in 1:00:05 ahead of Nadezhda Solovieva (AS Monaco) (1:04:21) and Katia Bonnard (1:06:14).

The flagship event of the Monaco Run, the 5km Herculis, saw the triumph of Frenchman Jimmy Gressier in 13:12. Dominic Lobalu (13:24) and Oscar Chelimo (13:32) complete the podium. AS Monaco’s Alex Milne, ranked 25th in a creditable 14:54. Among the women, the victory went to Mirriam Chebet in 15:40 ahead of Ine Bakken (16:24) and Jenipher Contois (16:28).

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In the 10km, it was Yohan Le Berre who won with a time of 29:52. Behind him, we find Domink Herren (30:14) and Clément Simon (30:21). On the women’s side, the victory went to Zuzana Gejdosova who crossed the finish line in 36:50. Lisa Migliorini and Elodie Lhomer completed the podium with times of 39:15 and 40:37.