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'A real shift'?: Le Pen's French far-right party claims big city in local elections
https://www.thelocal.fr/20200629/marine-le-pen-far-right-party-claims-big-city-in-frances-local-elections
"It's not just a symbolic victory, it's a real shift," Marine Le Pen told French TV channel TF1 just after the announcement that her party-colleague Louis Aliot would be the next major of Perpignan.
The southern city of 120,000 inhabitants, which is ranked France's 30th biggest city, was until this weekend ruled by the right-wing party Les Républicains.
The far-right party's takeover would be a chance to "show our capability of leading large administrative collectives," Le Pen said.
Sunday's local elections in France were marked by record-low turnout, an unprecedented number of cities taken over by the Green Party, and a failure of President Emmanuel Macron's ruling party to make any significant impact.
Macron expressed his concern over the high abstention rate, estimated at about 60 percent, and acknowledged that the elections were marked by a "green wave", the presidency said.
With just 22 months to the next presidential election, Le Pen is viewed by political analysts as President Emmanuel Macron's main contender, and her party hailed their victory in Perpignan as proof that things were moving in the right direction.
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