'Anything but Le Pen': French turn to tactical voting to stop far right

After big gains by the Front National in regional elections, leftwing voters in some areas are being asked to vote for the rightwing Les Républicains party Amid the run-down tower blocks on the Beau-Marais housing estate in Calais, Suzanne, 78, a retired cleaner and lifelong leftwinger, was feeling, as she put it, "down and a bit desperate". When the far-right Front National made a historic breakthrough in the first round of French regional elections last weekend, the port of Calais was one of ...