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Montevideo, November 5th 2024 - 05:39 UTC

Tag: Stephane Ravier

  • Monday, September 29th 2014 - 08:33 UTC

    French far-right won its first ever seats in the country's Senate

    “These results are beyond what we hoped for,” said Le Pen. “Each day that passes, our ideas are increasingly being adopted by the French people...”

    The far-right National Front won its first ever seats in France's upper house of parliament, as President Francois Hollande's Socialist party lost its Senate majority. The left still controls the lower house, which is the dominant legislative body in France, but Sunday's ballot underlined the unpopularity of the president and the continued rise of the anti-immigration, anti-Euro National Front.