French far right beaten in regional elections

Far-right leader Marine Le Pen leaves the voting booth before voting for the regional elections in Henin-Beaumont, northern France, on Jun 27, 2021. PARIS: Mainstream candidates delivered a stinging setback to France’s far right in 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.

As in previous national and local elections, voters put political differences aside in coming together to prevent a National Rally breakthrough. Although focused on local issues, and marked by record-low turnout, the regional voting was scrutinised as a test of whether the National Rally is gaining in acceptability. Le Pen has spent a decade trying to cast off the extremist reputation that repelled many French voters in the party's previous guise as the National Front. The party's renewed failure to win a region suggested that Le Pen and her party remain unpalatable to many before the 2022 presidential vote.

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