County: Sarkozy relishes victory, Valls acknowledged defeat

Victory over the right in the second round of the departmental elections which now control about two out of three departments. The left her towel when a severe defeat

and FN finally won any executive.

The UMP - UDI won Sunday 66 departments against 34 for the left.

Nicolas Sarkozy, the president of the UMP savored victory and tackle in passing the power. "We will finally accelerate the preparation of an alternation of Republican plan to address our country, to halt the decline in which plunged three years of the most archaic socialism in Europe," he said.

This election marks a fourth consecutive defeat of the executive to an intermediate ballot since 2012.

"The left, too scattered, too divided in the first round suffered a setback, despite the good balance of the county executive," acknowledged the Prime Minister Manuel Valls.

Marine Le Pen, president of the National Front tried to hide his disappointment and evokes a veiled the presidential 2017. "The objective approach to come to power and apply our ideas to straighten France. give him his freedom, security, prosperity, impoverishment, unemployment, mass, destruction of our identity is not inevitable. "

One in two French voted Sunday but one has voted neither Paris nor in Lyon, where the functions of the county councils are exercised by other bodies.