“Mainstream candidates delivered a stinging setback to France’s far right in the second round of regional elections on Sunday, thwarting its hopes of winning control of a region for the first time and slowing its momentum ahead of the presidential contest next year,” France 24 reports.
“Marine Le Pen’s far-right RN was soundly defeated in the key southern battleground of Provence-Alpes-Côte-d’Azur, its main hope of winning control of a region. The far-right leader blamed ‘unnatural alliances’ between foes for keeping her party out of power.”
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