MyExpat group blog roundup: the man who would not be président While Ed Miliband has been ranting about "predatory" companies in the UK ripping off consumers with exorbitant bank charges, airline levies, pension fees, inflated energy bills and car parking costs, perhaps he should look at "staycation" holidays too?... One person who will not be voted president of France this spring is Patrick Cosseron de Villenoisy. This is a shame, because he is the candidate of a royalist party, so it would be a little like having a protestant Pope. He does have a theoretical chance of being elected, because France definitely is a multi-party system, but given that in the last European elections, his party obtained 0.05% of the votes (that's less than the candidate of the Votes For Snails Party), this chance is quite small...