Marine Le Pen: Local Elections

Socialists Dept: The results are being seen as a sign of President Sarkozy's failure - a year before he faces re-election - to draw far-Right voters away from the National Front FN with a tough line on Islam, security and immigration, according to Montreal Gazette. Sarkozy's UMP party won just over 20 per cent, while the National Front, under its new leader Marine Le Pen, took almost 12 per cent and gained more than 300,000 voters between the two rounds and nicolas Sarkozy's party has been defeated by the Socialists in French local elections in which the farright National Front made historic gains. The Socialists were the big winners in the second round of cantonal elections, taking almost 36 per cent of the vote. As reported in the news.
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