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FRANCE: France's Macron takes drubbing in local elections, Greens surge (RTRS)

- French President Emmanuel Macron's centrist party faced a drubbing on Sunday

in municipal elections, while the Greens surged into power in several big

cities. In a rare bright spot for Macron, his prime minister, Edouard Philippe,

won his bid to become mayor of the northern port city of Le Havre. That could

lead to a government reshuffle, although the French constitution allows Philippe

to name someone else to act as mayor while he remains prime minister. But

otherwise the vote - delayed for months by the coronavirus crisis - delivered a

dire verdict for the president, who could emerge from the vote without winning a

single contest in a major city, two years before he faces re-election.

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