Esperaza polarity

It didn't look too crowded at the polls yesterday but in fact there was a steady trickle of voters - only 29% of those permitted to vote abstained.

Of those that did vote, nearly 5% presented invalid voting cards.

Slightly over 8% presented blank voting papers.

M Le Penn came in top with 58.77 % of the vote; followed by Macron with 41.23%.

But in the first round of the election Melachon (deeply left wing) came in 4 votes behind Le Penn, (hard right) - who accordingly won. 

Confused? Our little town has a middle of the road president now, despite these extraordinary polarities. 

Naturally our ex-pat community is alert to the xenophobic anti-foreigner stance of Le Penn and accordingly worried... much relieved to find we will be allowed to stay and continue to pay taxes here.  
 And its stopped raining, the sun is out, all is well with the world again :)