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PARIS, June 29 — France’s Greens celebrated major gains yesterday in local elections marked by record-low turnout and the failure of President Emmanuel Macron’s ruling party to make any significant impact. Projections based on early vote counts showed Europe Ecology, the Green party (EELV),...

Paris’ incumbent Mayor and candidate for the socialist Party Anne Hidalgo smiles before delivering a speech following her reelection in the 2020 mayoral elections at the Hotel de Ville in Paris June 28, 2020. — AFP pic

Government spokeswoman Sibeth Ndiaye expressed “disappointment” over the poor showing of the centrist Republic on the Move party which Macron created shortly before his successful 2017 presidential run. The biggest coup for the Greens would be ousting former minister Martine Aubry as mayor of the northern city of Lille. But her entourage insisted to AFP that she had clung on in a knife-edge vote.

But estimates showed that only two in five voters turned up to vote, an abstention rate that Le Pen described as “astonishing” and far-left leader Jean-Luc Melenchon said amounted to “a civic strike”.

 

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