Raymond Aubrac, the French Resistance hero, dies aged 97 Raymond Aubrac, whose daring escape from the Gestapo in 1943 remains one of the most famous Resistance stories to emerge from the Second World War, has died. >> Page 10
May 2012 Issue #31
François Hollande wins first round of presidential elections ♦ Hollande and Sarkozy make the May 6th run-off ♦ Region votes overwhelmingly for Hollande ♦ Nearly 1 in 5 people in France vote for the Far Right presidential race a long way behind left of centre Hollande in the polls, but his increasingly right-wing rhetoric saw him at one point briefly move ahead of the man dubbed “Mr Normal”. Analysts, as well as his own campaign team, had agreed that Sarkozy’s only chance of re-election was to win the first-round vote and build momentum going into the run-off. While most do now believe that Hollande will become France’s next president on the 6th May, the performance of Marine Le Pen and the Far Right has thrown a spanner into the works. With 17.90% of the vote, Le Pen’s Front National party secured their best ever election results, eclipsing even 2002 when her father Marie Le Pen shocked the political world by coming
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NEWS - Unexploded WWII grenades found
The remarkable memory of an 80-year-old lady has prevented a near disaster >> Page 3
NEWS - English-speaking flight school opens The Cosmo Flight School has taken to the skies with Nearly Heaven and the late Sue Virr gone but not forgotten >> Page 4
PRACTICAL - 2012 tax returns
The Bugle has teamed up with Siddalls to bring you a guide to filling out your tax returns >> Page 11 © 2012 - Matthieu Riegler (WikiCommons)
C
orrèze MP François Hollande has scored a crucial victory in the first round of the presidential elections, beating the incumbent president Nicolas Sarkozy by 28.63%* to 27.18%. The Socialist Party are now hoping to return to the presidency for the first time since François Mitterrand's re-election in 1988. Locally, support was far higher for Hollande than the national average. In the Limousin, 38.03% voted for the Socialist candidate and only 20.85% voted for Sarkozy. Elsewhere, the figures by department were: Indre 29.87% to 24.16%; Vienne 31.99% to 24.50%; Charente 32.79% to 23.06%; Dordogne 32.09% to 22.93%… all in favour of Hollande. The centre-right Sarkozy entered the
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