PARIS - Voters in France donned face masks to cast their ballots on Sunday in a delayed second round of country-wide municipal elections, a mid-term test for President Emmanuel Macron and his ruling party which could fail to win a single big city.
Mr Macron's first pick for Paris quit over a sex tape scandal, leaving the president's former health minister to jump in a month before the first round. In Perpignan, Ms Marine Le Pen's far-right party may take control of its first city with a population more than 100,000. In polling stations in Paris, clerks sat behind plexiglass screens wearing masks or face shields."It's better organised than last time," said pensioner Jean de Nathan.
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