French voters head to polls for round two
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Channel: Al Jazeera English · 2014 · News & Politics
French voters will head to the polls on Sunday for a second round of local elections that are expected to bring more bad news for the country's ruling socialists. In the first round, the Socialist Party had a surprise defeat in the town of Henin Beaumont, where the far-right National Front mayoral candidate scored an outright win. The National Front, historically a xenophobic party which whose former leader, Jean Marie Le Pen, described the Holocaust as a "detail" of the Second World War, has recently made gains by tapping into widespread belief that mainstream parties have abandoned working class voters. Al Jazeera's Nadim Baba reports from Henin Beaumont.
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