elections

Sunday was the first round of the election to select a president for the French Republic. Much voting in Tilling though not by anyone without French nationality; we foreigners can only vote in local and European elections.
Its is something of a day out here. The voters dress up - note splendid jacket in the pic above - and there was much chattering in the street.
The outcome seems to have split the right wing. Le Penn, who will expel all foreigners from France, has a massive 18% +(deeply disturbing, do our friends really hate us?) so Sarky has lost a tranche of his traditional voters - and the socialist might slip in between them. He (Hollande) is currently in the lead. I'm assuming that come round two the right wing will back Sarko against the socialists and Le Penn will disappear but I'm alarmed.
It is worse locally - in Tilling 252  voted for Le Penn and 227 for Sarko. (Hollande got 313, phew) Don't want to be expelled...though they say in the 8a8 that its a traditional protest about Sarky and it'll be OK in the next round.