Marine Le Pen, the head of France's National Front (FN), has expressed her pleasure at the results of today's (Sunday) regional poll.
Le Pen says that the survey, which found 27.2 percent to 30.8 percent of people support FN, proves that her party is "without contest the first party of France."
FN, which was strongly associated with anti-Semitism under the leadership of Le Pen's father, has come to focus more on anti-immigration.which was originally strongly associated with anti-Semitism, has come to focus more on anti-immigration.