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 and behind me left wing supporters have just finished
00:15celebrating the victory of socialist mayor Emmanuel Grégoire in the second largest city of France Marseille while socialist Benoit Payon
00:25was also re-elected but the left remains divided.
00:28The hard left France Unbowed party also made quite some significant gains this Sunday even though they were excluded from
00:37alliances 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 but in Nice Eric Ciotti an ally of the far right national rally ended up winning.
00:59President Emmanuel Macron's renaissance party also made some major gains including the southwestern city of Bordeaux but this Sunday is
01:09more than just about local politics it is also an early sign of how the battle of France's 2027 presidential
01:18election is beginning to take shape.
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