France’s far-right National Front made a breakthrough in nationwide municipal elections on Sunday that delivered a sharp rebuff to President François Hollande and his socialist government.
The FN, led by the charismatic Marine Le Pen, won its first mayoral seat since 1995 and appeared well placed to gain other towns.
Exit polls showed the mainstream centre-right UMP party of former president Nicolas Sarkozy was also leading the Socialist incumbent in several cities in the first countrywide electoral test of Mr Hollande’s deeply unpopular two-year old presidency.
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