Extracts of the Article of of Monday, January 7th, 2008.

The third city of the North - Pas-de-Calais is the object of all stakes. Appetites whet for this common person living near the border of 93 000 inhabitants for a long time taught to change majority on every election. If Jean-Pierre Balduyck, mayor PS since 1989 and which does not imagine, had until now allowed to the left to avoid the return of the outrigger, right represented by the deputy Christian Vanneste (CNI-UMP) is, this time, full of hopes. The city distinctly voted to the right for presidential election as for general elections, while the National Front, which had imposed the triangular again and again, could be deprived of its spoilsport's role. ( )