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By Abhik Chanda, Mar. 22, 2014, Yahoo
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Paris (AFP) - French voters went to the
polls on Sunday in the first round of local elections set to represent a
landmark for women in politics and, possibly, for the far-right National Front.
The first nationwide vote since Francois
Hollande's 2012 election as president took place with the ruling Socialists
battling record unpopularity and the main opposition UMP party grappling with
scandals embroiling former president Nicolas Sarkozy.
Against that backdrop, polls have
suggested around one in four voters are considering casting their votes for Marine
Le Pen's National Front (FN), setting the scene for what could be a
breakthrough election for the anti-immigration, anti-EU party led by the
daughter of its founder Jean-Marie Le Pen.
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