PARIS (dpa-AFX) – The former mainstream parties in France, the Socialists and the Conservatives, suffered historic defeats in the first round of the presidential election. According to projections by broadcasters France 2 and TF1 on Sunday evening, the bourgeois-conservative party Les Républicains, with lead candidate Valérie Pécresse, received only 4.6 to 5 percent of the vote. The Socialists, who were President François Hollande from 2012 to 2017, fell to 1.9 to 2.1 percent./rbo/DP/he
France election: crushing defeat for socialists and conservatives
