A French election
Tonight was the planning meeting for the forthcoming year at the student centre. It happens now because it's the students who have identified with the work who plan the programme.
It was also the municipal elections for Bordeaux, which means the re-election of Alain Juppé as Maire.
Voting finished at 20h30. Our meeting finished at 21h15, and by that time it was obvious from the cheering that the results had been declared. One of the students urged us to go to the Hotel de Ville. "There's food!", he said, so we went for the ambiance and he went for the food.
Well it was jolly good. Party time. Everyone friendly and in a good mood. One chap helped me to understand why when Alain Juppé had been sentenced to one-year ineligibility for public office and 14 months prison he had served his time in Canada. Bit of a slap in the kisser for the Canadians, I thought, but he was given a suspended sentence and went to Canada as a University teacher. Oohhh! All is clear! We also chatted with some ladies, one of whom was French Algerian (pied noir) and had returned to France in 1961, hoping it was temporary. It wasn't.
We saw M. Juppé and Hugues Martin, and there was also a guy who was the spitting image of Sarkozy, but I don't think it was really him.
I spotted the food through a window, so the student went shooting in and came out with a nice plate of saucisson, emmental cheese and a packet of crisps. I ate a slice of saucisson and some cheese so I could say I had, then we went home.
The quick results? Apparently they count each box of ballot slips as it is filled, so at the end of the day there isn't much more to do. Hmmm.
It was also the municipal elections for Bordeaux, which means the re-election of Alain Juppé as Maire.
Voting finished at 20h30. Our meeting finished at 21h15, and by that time it was obvious from the cheering that the results had been declared. One of the students urged us to go to the Hotel de Ville. "There's food!", he said, so we went for the ambiance and he went for the food.
Well it was jolly good. Party time. Everyone friendly and in a good mood. One chap helped me to understand why when Alain Juppé had been sentenced to one-year ineligibility for public office and 14 months prison he had served his time in Canada. Bit of a slap in the kisser for the Canadians, I thought, but he was given a suspended sentence and went to Canada as a University teacher. Oohhh! All is clear! We also chatted with some ladies, one of whom was French Algerian (pied noir) and had returned to France in 1961, hoping it was temporary. It wasn't.
We saw M. Juppé and Hugues Martin, and there was also a guy who was the spitting image of Sarkozy, but I don't think it was really him.
I spotted the food through a window, so the student went shooting in and came out with a nice plate of saucisson, emmental cheese and a packet of crisps. I ate a slice of saucisson and some cheese so I could say I had, then we went home.
The quick results? Apparently they count each box of ballot slips as it is filled, so at the end of the day there isn't much more to do. Hmmm.
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