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French far-right party holds its biggest city in first-round local elections

By Angelique Chrisafis in Paris

National Rally leader urges voters to back party’s ‘common sense’ campaign in final round as it eyes taking another city Jordan Bardella, the head of France’s far-right National Rally (RN) and a potential candidate in next year’s presidential race, has called on voters to back what he called his party’s “common sense and order” campaign in the final round of municipal elections next week. As the first-round municipal election results trickled in on Sunday night, the anti-immigration RN held o...