“I’m not rejoicing, I’m not exulting, I owe this success to Republican forces,” commented Frédéric Barbier, the Socialist Party candidate who emerged victorious in Sunday’s parliamentary by-election in the Doubs département (equivalent to a county) in eastern France, but which he won by the tightest of margins.
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