French far-right aims for success at local, EU elections


  • World
  • Monday, 16 Sep 2013

MARSEILLE, France (Reuters) - France's far-right National Front, buoyed by improving poll numbers, is aiming for big gains in municipal elections next year and the top spot in the European parliament ballot, its leaders said at the party's annual convention.

The two 2014 elections, the first since the Socialists came to power in 2012, will dominate the political agenda in the euro zone's second-largest country for the next nine months.

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