A week after coming top in six regions, the National Front (FN) failed to win a single zone in the second round of French local elections on Sunday (13 December). It still got its highest ever number of votes, however.
In the North and South-East, where it had the strongest lead after the first round on 6 December, the FN was clearly defeated by centre-right candidates.
In the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region, party leader Marine Le Pen was defeated with 42.23 percent of the votes agains...
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