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Greens candidate quits Provence run-off, complicating Le Pen bid – media

FILE PHOTO: France’s far-right leader Marine Le Pen delivers a speech for the next year’s municipal elections in an end-summer annual address to partisans in Frejus, France September 15, 2019. REUTERS/Jean-Paul Pelissier/File Photo

PARIS (Reuters) – The Greens candidate is pulling out of a run-off election in southeastern France, French media said on Monday, leaving a duel between the far-right and the centre-right – and making it harder for Marine Le Pen’s party to take control of the region.

Le Pen is hoping to win the Provence-Alpes-Cote d’Azur region, which would give her a platform and momentum for the 2022 presidential election. Her candidate, Thierry Mariani, fared less well than expected in the first round.

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