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00:00People are happy here. People are very, very excited.
00:03As you can hear behind me, there's lots of cheering, lots of roos.
00:07This is a big victory for the New Popular Front.
00:10They were able to pull together just in the wake of those
00:14European election results.
00:15Just under in four days, they were able to pull together
00:19and come together as a coalition, the socialists, the communists,
00:22the France Unbowed Party and the Greens.
00:25And they've managed to do it in this second round.
00:28They've managed to come out on top.
00:30They were able to pull off this Republican front.
00:34They were able to pull out their candidates
00:38that were in the third place in those three-way races
00:41and were able to keep that vote against the national rally undivided.
00:46And they've succeeded.
00:48It's a massive victory for them.
00:50We've seen flags being waved around.
00:52We've seen fireworks going off.
00:54People here are just very excited.