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Le Pen's National Front in the lead: exit poll
By EUobserver
Marine Le Pen's far-right National Front is in the lead for France's EU vote, according to an exit poll by Ipsos Steria. The party is on 25.2%, ahead of the centre-right UMP (20.6%) and the governing Socialist party (14.7). In the 2009 EU elections, the National Front got 6.34%