Green surge and low turnout as virus fears weigh on French local elections

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Counting at a polling station in Strasbourg, France, March 14, 2020. © Frédérick Florin, AFP

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French voters cast their ballots Sunday in nationwide municipal elections marked by record-low turnout after the government imposed stringent restrictions on public life in an increasingly frantic effort to slow the progress of the deadly coronavirus outbreak.