PARIS (CN) — On Sunday night, French Socialists managed to win the country’s biggest cities — Paris, Marseille, Lyon and Lille — after a tight municipal race that was seen as a way to check the country’s political pulse ahead of the 2027 presidential elections.
“Tonight Parisians have sent a message to [extreme-right leaders] Jordan Bardella, Marine Le Pen and to those who worked behind the scenes for a union of right-wing parties,” Emmanuel Grégoire, the new Socialist mayor of Paris, said after the results came in. “The message is clear — Paris is not and will never be a far-right city.”
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