Far-Right Party Wins In Port City

France’s far-right National Front party on Sunday won the mayoral race in the Mediterranean port of Toulon, a city of nearly 170,000.

National Front candidates running on the party’s platform of a promise to crack down on crime and on illegal immigration also became mayors in Orange, a southern French city of 30,000, and Marignagne, a suburb of Marseilles.

And in Nice, a French Riviera city of 342,000, a former National Front candidate running against a mayor from President Jacques Chirac’s conservative party won with 42 percent of the vote.

But far-right candidates lost in Vitrolles, another Marseilles suburb, and Dreux, 45 miles west of Paris, where they had appeared to have a strong chance of winning.