French elections – Brighton style 2022

For four days in 2022, part of the Unitarian Church in New Road, Brighton became a little bit of France.  Look hard and you will see the “writing on the door”.  On a background of the French tricolore is the single word Élections.

Image: S. Hinton

Sunday 10 April was the day of the first round of the French les présidentielles [presidential election]. The several thousand French voters in the Brighton area and wider afield (postcodes BN, PO and SO) seemed to have preferred to stay in bed.

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