Fights started outside French town
halls tonight as they came under the control of the far-right National
Front for the first time following dramatic gains in local elections.
Exit
polls suggested that the anti-immigration and anti-Europe party had
roundly beaten the governing Socialists in a number of key
constituencies.
'Demonstrators
are trying to get at the Front representatives and starting fights,'
said a police spokesman in Frejus, the picturesque Mediterranean town
which is hugely popular with British tourists.
Riot police are tonight guarding the offices of
David Rachline in Frejus, one of the areas where the right-wing National
Front have won local elections
There are reports of fights breaking out between
demonstrators following heavy defeats in the local elections for
France's ruling socialists
The town of Frejus and Beziers in the south of
France are now expected to sign in their first National Front mayors
following the elections
Frejus and nearby Beziers are now expected to have National Front (FN) mayors sworn in, along with around five other towns, following a nationwide drubbing for President Francois Hollande's Socialists.
Riot police were also out in force in other parts of the country as anti-fascist demonstrators threatened FN candidates with violence.
It meant further humiliation for Mr Hollande, whose disastrous tax and spend policies have led to economic stagnation, so opening the electoral door to the FN, which is regularly accused of being racist, anti-Semitic, and anti-Muslim.David Rachline, who is expected to become the FN mayor of Frejus, is a former head of the party's youth movement, and still just 26.
Mr Rachline said: 'The political establishment has failed the people - it has ruined the town and filled its pockets.
'You can't talk about a protest vote any more - the Front's scores show that people are backing its ideas.'
In a deeply humiliating blow for the Socialist government, finance minister Pierre Moscovici was unseated from the town council in Valentigny in the Doubs department.
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