UNPOPULAR HOLLANDE
Hollande is the most unpopular president in French polling history
At
the last regional polls in 2010, the Socialists, then in opposition,
swept all but one of the 18 regions in metropolitan France. Polls see
heavy losses for them this time around.
Part of that will be blamed on Hollande, the most unpopular president in French polling history.
The
Socialist leader has enjoyed a seven percentage point spike in support
since the Paris attacks, but that still only brought him to 27 per cent
approval in an Ifop poll published on Sunday.
In
their campaigns, FN candidates have stressed national issues such as
immigration, security and Europe as well as local concerns, mostly about
unemployment running just above France's 10.8 per cent October rate in
the north and PACA and just below it in the eastern region.
An
FN campaign poster in the Paris area shows two photos of the same young
woman, on the left, dressed as a football fan with the French flag
daubed on her cheeks, and on the right as a Muslim wearing a black niqab
covering all but her eyes.
'Pick
your suburb,' it reads, a reference to the poor outskirts of cities
where many French Muslims live, as if the regional vote were a choice
between French and foreigners.
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