00:00France's municipal elections have delivered one clear message tonight
00:03and it's that the left is holding on to the major cities in France
00:08including the capital Paris where I'm currently standing
00:11and behind me left-wing supporters have just finished celebrating
00:15the victory of socialist mayor Emmanuel Grégoire
00:20in the second largest city of France, Marseille
00:23while socialist Benoît Payon was also re-elected
00:26but the left remains divided
00:28the hard-left France Unbowed Party also made quite some significant gains this Sunday
00:34even though they were excluded from alliances
00:37especially by the socialists during the campaign
00:41who accused France Unbowed of anti-Semitism
00:44the far-right failed to win some of the major cities that it was targeting
00:49including Marseille and the southern city of Toulon
00:52but in Nice, Éric Ciotti, an ally of the far-right national rally
00:58ended up winning
00:59President Emmanuel Macron's Renaissance Party also made some major gains
01:05including 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
01:162027 presidential election is beginning to take shape
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