Socialist Emmanuel Gregoire wins Paris mayoral election

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Socialist party candidate Emmanuel Gregoire easily beat conservative former minister Rachida Dati in Paris's mayoral race, two exit polls showed. Most of France's almost 35,000 villages, towns and boroughs elected municipal leaders in a first round last weekend, but the races went to run-offs in about 1,500 communes, including bigger urban centres. In Paris, Gregoire — a 48-year-old former deputy of the