Nicolas Sarkozy pledges to listen to voters after regional elections

Nicolas Sarkozy has said that it would be a mistake to continue as if the swing to the National Front in the first round of the French regional elections had not happened.

Exit polls suggest that Marine Le Pen's party has failed to win a single region in the second round.

But Mr Sarkozy said that did not mean politicians could ignore what voters had told them.

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