don t listen to them. statements like that and these regional election results could make for an interesting presidential race in 2017. reporter: kind of a strange election result. everybody was claiming victory in the aftermath. the two mainstream parties, socialists and republicans were happy they had stopped the national front just a week ago. it looked like they could win perhaps as many of 6 of the 13 regions of france. they won none of them. while they were claiming victory because of that, the extreme right wing party was claiming victory as well. the leader of that party said we have tripled our representation over the last five years, and she s right about that. in these regional elections, there are national front party people who have won seats. they ve won seats and are representing the opposition in
they call the outcome a victory. they took their biggest step toward the prize they re really eyeing which is the presidency. jim bitterman explains. reporter: kind of a strange election result. no one appears to have lost this election. everybody was claiming victory in the aftermath. the two mainstream parties, socialists and republicans, were happy they had stopped the national front just a week ago. it looked like the national front could win perhaps as many as six of the 13 regions of france. in fact, tonight they won none of those regions. but while they were claiming victory because of that, the national front, the extreme right wing party was, in fact, claiming victory as well. because marie le pen, the leader said we have triple our representation in municipal and regional governments over the last five years and she s right about that. in these regional elections there are national front people who have won seats. they won seats and are representing the opposition in many o
mainstream parties. francois fillon socialist candidate, just collapsed. his presidency was a failure by any respect. 4% approval ratings. abysmal. so if you are a european neighbor, if you re belgium, if you are, you know, in europe, how worried are you about the potential outcome here? or is there a sense of hope or anticipation that there will be good alliances? if you re a european leader and concerned about preserving the project and worried about brexit then you are concerned that le pen will be president. she wants to take france out of the european currency, go back to franc, leave the zone of free movement so any american tourist who has traveled to france has noticed they can travel freely