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Follow us on Twitter evening standard Mond 18 June 2012 23 International children snub his partner after poll blow Peter allen in Paris FRENCH president Francois four children today vowed never to speak to his partner again after blaming her for their humiliating election defeat. Royal, 58, was set to become the new speaker of the National Assembly one of the most powerful jobs in the country if she won the western seat of La Rochelle yesterday. But she lost when 63 per cent of the vote went to dissident Socialist Olivier Falorni, a candidate supported by Mr girlfriend Trierweiler, 47. Today Ms Royal was being comforted by her four adult children. A senior Socialist Party source in Paris said: many others, they have already had enough of Ms Trierweiler caused outrage last week when she tweeted her support for Mr Falorni, with Ms Royal speaking of a blow to her ambitions.

Following her defeat, Ms Royal quoted the writer Victor Hugo saying: always pay for their treachery in the Although Mr Socialist party looked set to win between 313 and 315 of the 577 seats in the National Assembly, an absolute majority, he has a serious domestic crisis on his hands. Ms Royal has pledged to stay in politics, and has not ruled out standing for the leadership of the Socialists. She said: will continue to weigh upon national politics. I am passionately motivated by the love of France and the wellbeing of the Marine Le Pen who last month was a presidential candidate failed to win Henin Beaumont for the far-Right National Front party founded by her father Jean-Marie Le Pen. However, her niece Marion Pen, a 22- year-old law student, did win a seat to become the youngest French MP in modern history.

Trierweiler Staying in politics: Royal Socialist London lawyer is rst for ian sparks in Paris A LAWYER has become first for representing more than 100,000 French voters living in the UK. Socialist Axelle Lemaire, 37, has been elected to one of 11 new overseas seats, based in Kensington. Born in Canada, she has lived in England for 10 years. Britain is part of the of northern Europe, which covers 10 countries including the Irish Republic, Scandinavia and the Baltic states. The UK is by far the biggest sector, with its 113,655 French voters representing 80 per cent of the total.

London is now effectively sixth biggest city. Ms Lemaire beat Emmanuelle Savarit, 39, of the conservative UMP party. The new foreign constituencies are the idea of former French interior affairs minister Alain Marlaix. He said: is the first time in any country in the world that something like this had been done. The new overseas MPs will have identical status to any other MP based in Winner: Axelle Lemaire will represent voters in 10 countries of northern Europe RUSSIA is sending two navy ships with marines to protect it citizens and naval base in Syria, it was reported today.

The Nikolai Filchenkov and Caesar Kunikov amphibious assault vessels will go to the Syrian port of Tartus, an official told the Interfax new agency. He did not give a precise date but said the ships will carry an unspecified number of marines to protect Russians and evacuate materials from Tartus if necessary. It is only naval base outside the former Soviet Union. Russia has shielded regime from international sanctions over its crackdown on protests. It also continued to provide it with arms.

Syrian activists today said that government forces had renewed shelling in the central city of Homs. It came a day after the head of the UN mission in Syria demanded that warring parties allow the evacuation of women, children, elderly and sick people endangered by the fighting in Homs and other combat zones. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights cited witnesses on the ground as reporting the government shelling, along with gunfire and explosions. More than 14,000 people have died since the uprising began in March last year. Russian navy two ships to protect its citizens in Bo Wilson.