The
2018 Provencal presidential election was a decisive election for modern-day Provence. With the
Alliance Républicaine in power since the late 1990s, no left-wing coalition had managed to take down the right-wing coalition. However, 2018 saw the rise of the Green and Worker's rights parties, usually far behind in the polls. This led the
Parti Socialiste de Provence (PSP) leader
Massimo Zedda to form a coalition with the
Parti pour la Dépendance Ecologique de Provence (PDEP) to try and topple incumbent president
Hubert Falco. However, Falco still had strong support, mainly among the Arab and Western Provencal voters, which resulted in Hubert Falco getting reelected by a short margin of less than two million votes. This was still a victory for the left-wing alliance though, who gathered enough seats to dethrone the AR in the
Chamber of Deputies and launched a serious opposition for the first time in years.
List of major Provencal Parties:
Alliance Républicaine (AR): Right-wing/Conservative Party, Pro-buisness, Pro-ETU
Parti Socialiste de Provence (PSP): Center-Left Party, Socialist, Pro-Spending, Pro-ETU
Parti pour la Dépendance Ecologique de Provence (PDEP): Ecologists, Pro-ETU
Parti de l'Unification: Far-Right, Pro-Reunification with France, Mildly Anti-Arab and anti-immigration, no clear stance on ETU
Front pour la Liberté des Peuples Arabes (FLPA): Pan-Arabist, Arab breakaway group, Far-Right, Anti-ETU
Partito Sarde (PS): Pro-Sardinian autonomy, Center-Right, Pro-ETU
Partito di Italia: Far Right, Pro-Italian Unification, no clear stance on ETU, Anti-immigration
Front de Gauche Provencal (FDGP): Left-Wing hardliners, Anti-ETU, Anti-buisness
Front des Agriculteurs et des Ouvriers Méditerranéens (FAOM): Left-Wing, Pro-Arab, Anti-ETU, Anti-buisness
Mouvement Contre la Corruption Gouvernementale de Provence (MCCGP): Center-Left, Pro-buisness but anti-corruption, pro-ETU, pro-government transparency
Parti Communist Provencal (PCP): Anti-ETU, Far Left
Next up, a bloody conflict