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• Marine Le Pen's presidential bid for 2027 has been bolstered by her far-right National Rally party making significant gains in elections to the French Senate.S1
• Marine Le Pen’s far-right National Rally made significant gains in elections to the French Senate on Sunday, securing a parliamentary group in the upper house for the first time, French media reported on the basis of near-final election results. In a post on s...S2