A candidate with France’s far-right party was defeated in a race for a seat in the country’s Parliament. Although it regularly garners about 15 percent in national polls, the far-right National Front lost the legislative race in the Mediterranean port city of Toulon, the largest municipality controlled by the anti-immigrant party.
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