{"id":21858,"date":"2015-12-14T00:10:34","date_gmt":"2015-12-14T00:10:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french-far-right-flops-at-regional-election-run\/"},"modified":"2015-12-14T00:10:19","modified_gmt":"2015-12-14T00:10:19","slug":"french-far-right-flops-at-regional-election-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/french-far-right-flops-at-regional-election-run\/","title":{"rendered":"French far-right flops at regional election run-off"},"content":{"rendered":"

{Estimates show the National Front has failed to win a single region despite big gains in the first round. }<\/p>\n

Estimates showed France’s far-right National Front (FN) failed to win a single region in the second round of elections, despite record results in the first.<\/p>\n

If preliminary results are confirmed, the loss would be a major disappointment for National Front leader Marine Le Pen, who had hoped to use regional election wins as a springboard for presidential and general elections in 2017.<\/p>\n

Despite the predicted defeat, Le Pen gave a defiant speech to supporters after polls closed on Sunday, saying “nothing can stop us now”.<\/p>\n

Tactical voting by Socialist voters appeared to keep the National Front at bay in its main target regions.<\/p>\n

Out of 13 contested regions, the ruling Socialists of President Francois Hollande looked to have won at least five, while former president Nicolas Sarkozy’s centre-right alliance was leading with seven. Nationalists were expected to win in Corsica. <\/p>\n

Still, Socialist Prime Minister Manuel Valls warned despite the expected result “the danger of the far-right has not been removed, far from it”.<\/p>\n

After first round election results – the best in the National Front’s history – the Socialist Party withdrew its candidates in the north where Le Pen was the main candidate, and in the southeast where her niece Marion Marechal-Le Pen was running, urging supporters to vote for Sarkozy to keep FN out of power.<\/p>\n

Hollande languished behind the FN and the Republicans in the first round of the vote, which was held under a state of emergency just three weeks after 130 people were killed in the ISIL-claimed attacks in Paris.<\/p>\n

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