centre of a presidential private-life saga this week when Hollande's partner, the journalist Valrie Trierweiler, tweeted her support of the dissident. Hollande had backed Royal, who was his partner for 30 years and is mother of his four children. The Socialist party leader Martine Aubry promised the new parliament would be more representative of France, with more women and MPs from France's diverse ethnic make-up. In the last parliament there was only one black MP representing mainland France. As final counts continued, the exact number of women or ethnic minority MPs was unclear. In the last of four elections in two-months, including the two-round presidential race, there was a notably low turnout of about 56%. Yup, and here's my take on these elections in case anyone's interested. Hollande has got his 'normal' presidency and absolute majority, fine, so let's just wait and see see what he shall do with them.. Phew! And there were the old rust belt Parisian suburbs thinking they'd get shanked if the right got in again. Now the PS are going to be riding around the Periph ladling out loadsa euros and save us! Pips will squeak! We need a Delacroix to capture the moment. Au revoir Cop! Sadly this doesn't nearly off-set the electoral disaster in Greece, which will bolster the austeritarians across Europe. Greece was hardly an electoral disaster. Despite the brazen threats of Merkel, Cameron, Rajoy, Mario Draghi, the IMF, the ECB, Van Rumpuoy etc, a clear majority of Greeks voted for anti-austerity