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What do gains made by France's far right party mean?

Clip: 3/21/2015 | 3m 25s

In Sundays elections in France, the country's far right National Front party eyed gains.

On Sunday, voting in local elections took place throughout France, and while Ex-President Nicolas Sarkozy's conservative UMP pulled ahead, the country's far right National Front Party led by Marine Le Pen made major gains by garnering a large number of votes. To explain the implications of the elections, NPR's Eleanor Beardsly joins Hari Sreenivasan via Skype from Paris.

03/21/2015 | Rating NR

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