President Nicolas Sarkozy's centre-Right UMP group and the Greens win
were the two big winners in France's European parliamentary elections, near complete results showed. But with 93 per cent of ballots counted, the opposition Socialists appeared to have suffered serious losses –plunging the already weak party into further disarray. With just under 28 per cent of the vote, the UMP was the first ruling party in France to come out on top in EU elections since 1979, in a major boost to the president, whose approval ratings have been poor in recent months.
Despite the poor turnout, François Fillon, the prime minister, was quick to praise Mr Sarkozy as the biggest winner in Sunday's vote. "This success is the recognition of the work accomplished by the the French presidency of the European Union" under Mr Sarkozy in the second half of 2008, he said.
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