passed to the man who was his prime minister for three years, manuel valls, representing a kind of continuity with the right wing of the socialist party. he is up against a number of characters on the left of the party, two need to be pointed out in particular, arnaud montebourg and hamon, they are the main contenders from the left wing of the socialist party, and what will happen today is probably that we will get manuel valls probably representing the right and one of those people representing the left will go through and there will be a run—off next week in which one or two will be chosen to represent the socialists that the party. i have to say that in normal times this would bea say that in normal times this would be a very big deal and the left would be represented by such and such a person in the election. these are not normal times. the socialist party is in deep disarray and it is possible the main contender will not be from the socialist party when it comes to the actual...