00:00France's municipal elections have delivered one clear message tonight and it's that the left is holding on to the major
00:07cities in France, including the capital Paris, where I'm currently standing.
00:12And behind me, left-wing supporters have just finished celebrating the victory of socialist mayor Emmanuel Grégoire in the second
00:21largest city of France, Marseille, while socialist Benoît Payon was also re-elected.
00:26But the left remains divided. The hard-left France Unbowed Party also made quite some significant gains this Sunday, even
00:35though they were excluded from alliances, especially by the socialists during the campaign who accused France Unbowed of anti-Semitism.
00:44The far-right failed to win some of the major cities that it was targeting, including Marseille and the southern
00:51city of Toulon.
00:52But in Nice, Éric Ciotti, an ally of the far-right national rally, ended up winning.
01:00President Emmanuel Macron's Renaissance Party also made some major gains, including the southwestern city of Bordeaux.
01:08But this Sunday is more than just about local politics.
01:12It is also an early sign of how the Battle of France's 2027 presidential election is beginning to take shape.
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