As you may know, France had some elections last weekend. It’s a great opportunity to learn some new French vocabulary around the topic of the elections.

French elections

French elections are of different nature. You have:
- les élections présidentielles where people need to choose the President
- les éléctions régionales where you vote for your regional council
- les élections municipales where you vote for your city council
- and many more.
The people who vote are called the électeurs. They vote for un parti de gauche ou de droite.
In France, you need to be at least 18 years old to vote (verb:voter). In the last elections, le taux d’abstention was very high.

Elections in your country

The système électoral in your country might be very different to the one in France. Can you think of any difference? For example:
- Who can vote in your country?
- How do you elect your President?
- Do you have many levels of councils like in France?

Discuss all this and many more topics through online French conversation lessons with one of our teachers at Live-French.net.