France elections: Brittany, once moderate, looks to the far right

National Rally activists are met with angry mutterings but also some support in the coastal region.

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As they handed out leaflets for their party, the far-right National Rally, you could hear the angry mutterings – the soundtrack of France’s unexpected and acutely polarising parliamentary election campaign – spluttering to life in their wake.

“Go to Moscow,” declared a man sitting in the shade beside the town’s church.

“Fascists. It’s horrible. We just hate them,” said Solène Jambou, 50, watching the two young men pass in front of her clothes stall.

But many other people in the market came over to collect leaflets from the young campaigners.

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