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Marine Le Pen celebrates National Rally results in first-round victory

Regional elections

Important electoral victory

Paris - Marine Le Pen, leader of the National Rally party, has celebrated her party's success in the first round of regional elections in France, which were held on 20 June 2021. The National Rally came first in six of the 13 regions of metropolitan France, including the Pas-de-Calais, where Le Pen herself was elected as a regional councillor.

Le Pen's success is seen as a significant victory for the far-right in France. The National Rally is the largest party on the far-right in the country and has been gaining support in recent years. The party's success in the regional elections is likely to give it a boost ahead of the presidential elections in 2022, in which Le Pen is expected to be a candidate.

The regional elections were seen as a test of the popularity of President Emmanuel Macron, who has been in office since 2017. Macron's party, La République en Marche, came second in the first round of the elections, but it is not clear whether it will be able to form alliances with other parties to win in the second round.