Sentence examples for french votes from inspiring English sources

Residents of the "banlieues" — mostly Muslim, of Arab and African origin — remained scarred by an ugly campaign that saw a presidential candidate who repeatedly attacked and demonized their communities and went on to win a third of all French votes.

Whether that is enough to swing the majority will remain to be seen, but at this point it is more likely that a majority of Scots vote for Scottish independence than that a majority of French votes for a Frexit or a majority of Dutch vote for a Nexit.

You could almost hear the French vote fleeing.

The French voted out the Socialist government in the recent elections.

ON MAY 6th the French vote for a president and the Greeks and Armenians for parliaments.

Nicolas Sarkozy candidly acknowledged he could not let the French vote the "wrong way" again.

A few days later, the French voted him out of the Presidential race.

The French, voting under gray skies with some rain, expressed a sharp desire for change and a better economic future.

And when the French voted against the draft EU constitution in 2005, it was ignored in Brussels too.

The French voted for change, Mr. Hollande's slogan, Mr. Binet said, "but any democratic country is hard to change".

But even if the French vote in favour, the constitution's partisans will not be able to relax.