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French far right in crushing defeat -- or was it?

France's far-right National Front party has failed to win control of a single region, in a second round vote in regional elections. But the National Front leader, Marine Le Pen, says the party has tripled its number of councillors and that nothing can stop it. Anna Holligan explains why the results are both good news and bad for the National Front.

(Photo: Marion Marechal-Le Pen, niece of NF leader Marine Le Pen, at the election results for the Provence-Alpes-Cote d"Azur region in Marseille. Credit: Anne-Christine Poujoulat/AFP/Getty Images)

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