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High-profile defector from N. Korea

Ri Jong Ho, a former senior North Korean official who defected in 2014, gives an interview near Washington on May 2, 2024.

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U.S. House fails to elect new speaker in second vote amid Republican infighting

STORY: U.S. House fails to elect new speaker in second vote amid Republican infighting DATELINE: Oct. 19, 2023 LENGTH: 00:02:04 LOCATION: Washington D.C. CATEGORY: POLITICS SHOTLIST: 1. various of the election of the speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives STORYLINE: The U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday failed to elect a new speaker in the second round of voting, as Right-wing Republican Jim Jordan, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, lost more votes from his own party compared with the first round amid continued Republican infighting. Jordan won 199 votes out of the 221 House Republicans, losing 22 Republican votes in the second round of full-chamber voting, compared with 20 Republican defections in the first round on Tuesday, indicating mounting resistance within the party and casting doubt about the way forward. Four Republicans who voted for him on Tuesday defected in the second round, while he picked up support from two others and secured another vote from the member who was ab

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Press conference on special operation of Ukrainian intelligence to lure out Russian Mi-8 helicopter pilot

KYIV, UKRAINE - SEPTEMBER 5, 2023 - Representative of the Defence Intelligence of Ukraine Andrii Yusov, journalist, serviceman, author of the Military Intelligence of Ukraine documentary series Artem Shevchenko and defected Russian Mi-8 helicopter pilot, Captain Maksim Kuzminov (L to R) are pictured during a press conference to share the details of the Synytsia (Tit) special operation of the Ukrainian Defence Intelligence, Kyiv, capital of Ukraine. As reported, a Russian pilot flying a Mi-8 AMTSh helicopter loaded with parts for Sukhoi fighter jets crossed into Ukraine in August 2023.

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Press conference on special operation of Ukrainian intelligence to lure out Russian Mi-8 helicopter pilot

KYIV, UKRAINE - SEPTEMBER 5, 2023 - Journalist, serviceman, author of the Military Intelligence of Ukraine documentary series Artem Shevchenko (L) and defected Russian Mi-8 helicopter pilot, Captain Maksim Kuzminov are pictured during a press conference to share the details of the Synytsia (Tit) special operation of the Ukrainian Defence Intelligence, Kyiv, capital of Ukraine. As reported, a Russian pilot flying a Mi-8 AMTSh helicopter loaded with parts for Sukhoi fighter jets crossed into Ukraine in August 2023.

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Press conference on special operation of Ukrainian intelligence to lure out Russian Mi-8 helicopter pilot

KYIV, UKRAINE - SEPTEMBER 5, 2023 - Representative of the Defence Intelligence of Ukraine Andrii Yusov, journalist, serviceman, author of the Military Intelligence of Ukraine documentary series Artem Shevchenko and defected Russian Mi-8 helicopter pilot, Captain Maksim Kuzminov (L to R) are pictured during a press conference to share the details of the Synytsia (Tit) special operation of the Ukrainian Defence Intelligence, Kyiv, capital of Ukraine. As reported, a Russian pilot flying a Mi-8 AMTSh helicopter loaded with parts for Sukhoi fighter jets crossed into Ukraine in August 2023.

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Press conference on special operation of Ukrainian intelligence to lure out Russian Mi-8 helicopter pilot

KYIV, UKRAINE - SEPTEMBER 5, 2023 - Defected Russian Mi-8 helicopter pilot, Captain Maksim Kuzminov attends a press conference to share the details of the Synytsia (Tit) special operation of the Ukrainian Defence Intelligence, Kyiv, capital of Ukraine. As reported, a Russian pilot flying a Mi-8 AMTSh helicopter loaded with parts for Sukhoi fighter jets crossed into Ukraine in August 2023.

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Press conference on special operation of Ukrainian intelligence to lure out Russian Mi-8 helicopter pilot

KYIV, UKRAINE - SEPTEMBER 5, 2023 - Defected Russian Mi-8 helicopter pilot, Captain Maksim Kuzminov attends a press conference to share the details of the Synytsia (Tit) special operation of the Ukrainian Defence Intelligence, Kyiv, capital of Ukraine. As reported, a Russian pilot flying a Mi-8 AMTSh helicopter loaded with parts for Sukhoi fighter jets crossed into Ukraine in August 2023.

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Press conference on special operation of Ukrainian intelligence to lure out Russian Mi-8 helicopter pilot

KYIV, UKRAINE - SEPTEMBER 5, 2023 - Defected Russian Mi-8 helicopter pilot, Captain Maksim Kuzminov attends a press conference to share the details of the Synytsia (Tit) special operation of the Ukrainian Defence Intelligence, Kyiv, capital of Ukraine. As reported, a Russian pilot flying a Mi-8 AMTSh helicopter loaded with parts for Sukhoi fighter jets crossed into Ukraine in August 2023.

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Press conference on special operation of Ukrainian intelligence to lure out Russian Mi-8 helicopter pilot

KYIV, UKRAINE - SEPTEMBER 5, 2023 - Representative of the Defence Intelligence of Ukraine Andrii Yusov, journalist, serviceman, author of the Military Intelligence of Ukraine documentary series Artem Shevchenko and defected Russian Mi-8 helicopter pilot, Captain Maksim Kuzminov (L to R) are pictured during a press conference to share the details of the Synytsia (Tit) special operation of the Ukrainian Defence Intelligence, Kyiv, capital of Ukraine. As reported, a Russian pilot flying a Mi-8 AMTSh helicopter loaded with parts for Sukhoi fighter jets crossed into Ukraine in August 2023.

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Press conference on special operation of Ukrainian intelligence to lure out Russian Mi-8 helicopter pilot

KYIV, UKRAINE - SEPTEMBER 5, 2023 - Representative of the Defence Intelligence of Ukraine Andrii Yusov, journalist, serviceman, author of the Military Intelligence of Ukraine documentary series Artem Shevchenko and defected Russian Mi-8 helicopter pilot, Captain Maksim Kuzminov (L to R) are pictured during a press conference to share the details of the Synytsia (Tit) special operation of the Ukrainian Defence Intelligence, Kyiv, capital of Ukraine. As reported, a Russian pilot flying a Mi-8 AMTSh helicopter loaded with parts for Sukhoi fighter jets crossed into Ukraine in August 2023.

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Kim Jong Il's eldest son back home: report

SEOUL, South Korea - File photo of a man who appears to be Kim Jong Nam, North Korean leader Kim Jong Il's eldest son. Photo taken at Beijing airport in February. South Korea's Chosun Ilbo, citing a South Korean intelligence source and a senior North Korean official who defected to the South, reported Aug. 27 that Kim, 36, returned home around June after living overseas for years and has taken up a post at the Organization and Guidance Department of the ruling Workers' Party of Korea. The department is the key agency which controls the ruling party, the military and the government of North Korea.

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Exhibition on N. Korean defector family

SEOUL, South Korea - Materials including dairies and drawings related to Kim Han Mi and her family who defected from North Korea are exhibited at a gallery in Seoul, South Korea, on June 18, 2014. The event is being held to look back on the journey of the family, who defected to South Korea via the Japanese consulate in Shenyang, China, in 2002.

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Exhibition on N. Korean defector family

SEOUL, South Korea - Drawings related to Kim Han Mi and her family who defected from North Korea are exhibited at a gallery in Seoul, South Korea, on June 18, 2014. The event is being held to look back on the journey of the family, who defected to South Korea via the Japanese consulate in Shenyang, China, in 2002.

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N. Korean soldier defects to South

SEOUL, South Korea - File photo shows the Gyeongui Line road from the South Korean side of the border with the North on Dec. 27, 2011. A North Korean soldier defected to South Korea on Oct. 6, 2012, across the heavily armed border after killing two of his superiors, the South's Joint Chiefs of Staff said.

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Civilians join defected Libyan soldiers

TOBRUK, Libya - Members of antigovernment forces rest after combating forces of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, in Tobruk, northeastern Libya, on March 3, 2011. Civilians have joined defected Libyan soldiers to fight against mercenary troops hired by Gaddafi.

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N. Korean defector says he has no knowledge of abductee Yokota

TOKYO, Japan - Shigeru Yokota (C) and his wife Sakie, parents of Megumi Yokota, who was abducted to North Korea from Japan as a teenager and who Pyongyang claims has died, speaks to reporters in Tokyo on April 5, 20101, after Hwang Jang Yop, a former high-ranking North Korean official who defected to South Korea in 1997, told Japanese lawmakers in Tokyo he has no knowledge of Megumi. The former secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea was in Tokyo to meet some 20 lawmakers including Hiroshi Nakai, minister in charge of abduction issues.

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Ex-N. Korea agent goes public after 15 years of hiding in Austria

VIENNA, Austria - Kim Jong Ryul, former North Korean procurement agent and colonel, who defected to Austria in 1994, speaks during a press conference in Vienna on March 4, 2010. During the conference, Kim presented his book which was published recently and talked about his life under the dictatorship.

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Your Party's Watanabe reelected

TOKYO, Japan - Yoshimi Watanabe, leader of the small opposition Your Party, celebrates by putting a flower atop his name on a board after securing reelection as a House of Representatives lawmaker in the Aug. 30 general election at a Tokyo hotel. Watanabe, a former Cabinet minister on administrative reforms, defected from Prime Minister Taro Aso's ruling Liberal Democratic Party in January.

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N. Korean defector sues Chongryon over emigration program

OSAKA, Japan - Yumiko Chiba speaks at a news conference in Osaka on June 13 after filing an 11 million yen damages suit against the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan, or Chongryon, over its responsibility for a program that promoted the emigration of Korean residents of Japan to North Korea. Chiba, 47, moved to North Korea with her parents in 1963 under the program and defected from the country in 2003.

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Japanese defector to N. Korea returns to Japan

NIIGATA, Japan - Kazumi Kitagawa, 31, a Japanese woman from Osaka who jumped into a river on the Chinese-North Korean border and defected to North Korea in August 2003 returned to Japan on Nov. 3. Photo shows Kitagawa holding a news conference at a Niigata hotel after arriving at Niigata airport from Pyongyang via Vladivostok.

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DPJ's Hatoyama meets Hwang in Seoul

SEOUL, South Korea - Yukio Hatoyama (L), former leader of the Democratic Party of Japan, talks with Hwang Jang Yop, a former secretary of the Workers Party of (North) Korea, in Seoul on Feb. 5. Hwang, who defected to South Korea in 1997, expressed hope to visit Japan.

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(4)Kin of Japanese abductees meet ex-N. Korean official

SEOUL, South Korea - Hwang Jang Yop, a former secretary of the Workers Party of Korea who defected to South Korea in 1997, speaks to journalists after his meeting with Shigeru and Sakie Yokota. whose daughter Megumi was abducted by North Korea in 1977 at age 13, in Seoul on June 25. Hwang expressed his willingness to visit Japan to speak about the situation in North Korea.

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(2)Kin of Japanese abductees meet ex-N. Korean official

SEOUL, South Korea - Shigeru (R) and Sakie Yokota (2nd from R) whose daughter Megumi was abducted by North Korea in 1977 at age 13, pose for a photo with Hwang Jang Yop, a former secretary of the Workers Party of Korea who defected to South Korea in 1997 in Seoul on June 25. The Yokotas are on a three-day visit to South Korea.

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(3)Kin of Japanese abductees meet ex-N. Korean official

SEOUL, South Korea - Shigeru (L) and Sakie Yokota (2nd from L) whose daughter Megumi was abducted by North Korea in 1977 at age 13, former South Korean President Kim Young Sam (2nd from R) and Hwang Jang Yop, a former secretary of the Workers Party of Korea who defected to South Korea in 1997, speak to journalists after their meeting in Seoul on June 25.

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(1)Kin of Japanese abductees meet ex-N. Korean official

SEOUL, South Korea - Shigeru (2nd from L) and Sakie Yokota (L), whose daughter Megumi was abducted by North Korea in 1977 at age 13, shake hands with Hwang Jang Yop (2nd from R), a former secretary of the Workers Party of Korea who defected to South Korea in 1997, and former South Korean President Kim Young Sam (R) in Seoul on June 25. The Yokotas are on a three-day visit to South Korea.

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Top N. Korean defector willing to testify in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Hwang Jang Yop (L), a top-ranking North Korean official who defected to South Korea in 1997, poses for a photo in Seoul on June 14 with Japanese opposition lawmaker Shu Watanabe. Watanabe told Kyodo News on June 21 that Hwang, former secretary of the Workers Party of Korea, had expressed willingness to testify in Japan about the situation in the reclusive communist state.

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German doctor confirms N. Korean nuke expert defected to U.S.

TOKYO, Japan - German human rights activist Norbert Vollertsen speaks in an interview with Kyodo News in Tokyo on May 9. He confirmed reports that a couple dozen elite North Korean scientific experts have defected to the United States and other countries in a secret operation launched in fall 2002.

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(2)Soga's family wants her to return to Pyongyang, weekly says

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows Hitomi Soga, one of five Japanese abducted by North Korea who are back in Japan. After being taken to North Korea in 1978, Soga married Charles Robert Jenkins, a former U.S. soldier who had defected to the North, in 1965. The couple has two daughters, Mika, 19 and Belinda, 17.

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(5)Five abductees, now and 24 years ago

TOKYO, Japan - Hitomi Soga, 43, was abducted by North Korea on Aug. 12, 1978 along with her mother Miyoshi. She married a former U.S. soldier who had defected to North Korea in 1965.

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Defector says donated Japanese rice not reaching N. Koreans

TOKYO, Japan - Li Chang Song, a Japan-born ethnic Korean who moved to the North under a postwar repatriation program, speaks at a meeting of the main opposition Democratic Party of Japan's federation on North Korean humanitarian issues in Tokyo on July 25. Song, who has defected to South Korea, said rice donated to the North by Japan is being hoarded by its military personnel and is not reaching hungry people.

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Hijackers' daughters leave N. Korea for Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Three daughters of former Red Army Faction cadres are seen in photo taken by a supporter in March in Pyongyang. Shown are Asaka Tamiya (L), 22, daughter of Takamaro Tamiya, deceased leader of the hijackers' group; Azumi Tanaka (C), 22, daughter of Yoshimi Tanaka; and Ritsuko Konishi, 23, daughter of Takahiro Konishi. The three daughters, whose fathers defected to North Korea after hijacking a Japan Airlines plane in 1970, left Pyongyang on May 15 for Japan via China.

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14 attend 1st Kato faction meeting after breakup

TOKYO, Japan - Koichi Kato (standing), former secretary general of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), addresses a meeting of his faction in Tokyo on Feb. 1. Fourteen LDP members attended the meeting, a day after 42 members defected and launched a new faction headed by former trade minister Mitsuo Horiuchi.

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Defected N. Korean actress hopes to debut in Japan

With her new book, 'Diary of a North Korean Actress,' in hand, Kim Hye Young, who defected to South Korea last year, speaks to foreign correspondents in Seoul on June 4. She said she hopes to make a debut in Japanese movies or as a singer.

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N. Korean actress defects to S. Korea

Kim Hye Young (back L), a North Korean actress, defected to South Korea with her family members in August last year to continue her career in acting, the South Korean Unification Ministry says Jan. 5. Kim, 26, decided to defect to S. Korea after failing to be admitted into the Pochonbo Electronic Music Troupe founded by North Korean leader Kim Jong Il. She said that her connection to relatives in China was behind her rejection by the school. The picture was released by the South Korean government.

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Mariani Regional Elections Statement - Le Pontet

Far-right Rassemblement National (RN) candidate in Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur (PACA) for the regional elections Thierry Mariani speaks to the press in Le Pontet, southern France, following the first round of the French regional elections on June 20, 2021. The National Rally (RN) party's best hope was in the southeastern Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur where its campaign was fronted by Thierry Mariani, a former minister who defected from the centre-right Republicans party. But Mariani underperformed pre-vote polling figures, with early results showing him neck-and-neck with the current head of the region, Renaud Muselier from the Republicans. Photo by Patrick Aventurier/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Mariani Regional Elections Statement - Le Pontet

Far-right Rassemblement National (RN) candidate in Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur (PACA) for the regional elections Thierry Mariani arrives to a press conference in Le Pontet, southern France, following the first round of the French regional elections on June 20, 2021. The National Rally (RN) party's best hope was in the southeastern Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur where its campaign was fronted by Thierry Mariani, a former minister who defected from the centre-right Republicans party. But Mariani underperformed pre-vote polling figures, with early results showing him neck-and-neck with the current head of the region, Renaud Muselier from the Republicans. Photo by Patrick Aventurier/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Mariani Regional Elections Statement - Le Pontet

Far-right Rassemblement National (RN) candidate in Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur (PACA) for the regional elections Thierry Mariani speaks to the press in Le Pontet, southern France, following the first round of the French regional elections on June 20, 2021. The National Rally (RN) party's best hope was in the southeastern Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur where its campaign was fronted by Thierry Mariani, a former minister who defected from the centre-right Republicans party. But Mariani underperformed pre-vote polling figures, with early results showing him neck-and-neck with the current head of the region, Renaud Muselier from the Republicans. Photo by Patrick Aventurier/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Mariani Regional Elections Statement - Le Pontet

Far-right Rassemblement National (RN) candidate in Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur (PACA) for the regional elections Thierry Mariani speaks to the press in Le Pontet, southern France, following the first round of the French regional elections on June 20, 2021. The National Rally (RN) party's best hope was in the southeastern Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur where its campaign was fronted by Thierry Mariani, a former minister who defected from the centre-right Republicans party. But Mariani underperformed pre-vote polling figures, with early results showing him neck-and-neck with the current head of the region, Renaud Muselier from the Republicans. Photo by Patrick Aventurier/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Mariani Regional Elections Statement - Le Pontet

Far-right Rassemblement National (RN) candidate in Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur (PACA) for the regional elections Thierry Mariani speaks to the press in Le Pontet, southern France, following the first round of the French regional elections on June 20, 2021. The National Rally (RN) party's best hope was in the southeastern Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur where its campaign was fronted by Thierry Mariani, a former minister who defected from the centre-right Republicans party. But Mariani underperformed pre-vote polling figures, with early results showing him neck-and-neck with the current head of the region, Renaud Muselier from the Republicans. Photo by Patrick Aventurier/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Mariani Regional Elections Statement - Le Pontet

Far-right Rassemblement National (RN) candidate in Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur (PACA) for the regional elections Thierry Mariani speaks to the press in Le Pontet, southern France, following the first round of the French regional elections on June 20, 2021. The National Rally (RN) party's best hope was in the southeastern Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur where its campaign was fronted by Thierry Mariani, a former minister who defected from the centre-right Republicans party. But Mariani underperformed pre-vote polling figures, with early results showing him neck-and-neck with the current head of the region, Renaud Muselier from the Republicans. Photo by Patrick Aventurier/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Mariani Regional Elections Statement - Le Pontet

Far-right Rassemblement National (RN) candidate in Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur (PACA) for the regional elections Thierry Mariani speaks to the press in Le Pontet, southern France, following the first round of the French regional elections on June 20, 2021. The National Rally (RN) party's best hope was in the southeastern Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur where its campaign was fronted by Thierry Mariani, a former minister who defected from the centre-right Republicans party. But Mariani underperformed pre-vote polling figures, with early results showing him neck-and-neck with the current head of the region, Renaud Muselier from the Republicans. Photo by Patrick Aventurier/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Mariani Regional Elections Statement - Le Pontet

Far-right Rassemblement National (RN) candidate in Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur (PACA) for the regional elections Thierry Mariani arrives to a press conference in Le Pontet, southern France, following the first round of the French regional elections on June 20, 2021. The National Rally (RN) party's best hope was in the southeastern Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur where its campaign was fronted by Thierry Mariani, a former minister who defected from the centre-right Republicans party. But Mariani underperformed pre-vote polling figures, with early results showing him neck-and-neck with the current head of the region, Renaud Muselier from the Republicans. Photo by Patrick Aventurier/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Mariani Regional Elections Statement - Le Pontet

Far-right Rassemblement National (RN) candidate in Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur (PACA) for the regional elections Thierry Mariani speaks to the press in Le Pontet, southern France, following the first round of the French regional elections on June 20, 2021. The National Rally (RN) party's best hope was in the southeastern Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur where its campaign was fronted by Thierry Mariani, a former minister who defected from the centre-right Republicans party. But Mariani underperformed pre-vote polling figures, with early results showing him neck-and-neck with the current head of the region, Renaud Muselier from the Republicans. Photo by Patrick Aventurier/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Mariani Regional Elections Statement - Le Pontet

Far-right Rassemblement National (RN) candidate in Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur (PACA) for the regional elections Thierry Mariani speaks to the press in Le Pontet, southern France, following the first round of the French regional elections on June 20, 2021. The National Rally (RN) party's best hope was in the southeastern Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur where its campaign was fronted by Thierry Mariani, a former minister who defected from the centre-right Republicans party. But Mariani underperformed pre-vote polling figures, with early results showing him neck-and-neck with the current head of the region, Renaud Muselier from the Republicans. Photo by Patrick Aventurier/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Mariani Regional Elections Statement - Le Pontet

Far-right Rassemblement National (RN) candidate in Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur (PACA) for the regional elections Thierry Mariani speaks to the press in Le Pontet, southern France, following the first round of the French regional elections on June 20, 2021. The National Rally (RN) party's best hope was in the southeastern Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur where its campaign was fronted by Thierry Mariani, a former minister who defected from the centre-right Republicans party. But Mariani underperformed pre-vote polling figures, with early results showing him neck-and-neck with the current head of the region, Renaud Muselier from the Republicans. Photo by Patrick Aventurier/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Mariani Regional Elections Statement - Le Pontet

Far-right Rassemblement National (RN) candidate in Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur (PACA) for the regional elections Thierry Mariani arrives to a press conference in Le Pontet, southern France, following the first round of the French regional elections on June 20, 2021. The National Rally (RN) party's best hope was in the southeastern Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur where its campaign was fronted by Thierry Mariani, a former minister who defected from the centre-right Republicans party. But Mariani underperformed pre-vote polling figures, with early results showing him neck-and-neck with the current head of the region, Renaud Muselier from the Republicans. Photo by Patrick Aventurier/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Mariani Regional Elections Statement - Le Pontet

Far-right Rassemblement National (RN) candidate in Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur (PACA) for the regional elections Thierry Mariani speaks to the press in Le Pontet, southern France, following the first round of the French regional elections on June 20, 2021. The National Rally (RN) party's best hope was in the southeastern Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur where its campaign was fronted by Thierry Mariani, a former minister who defected from the centre-right Republicans party. But Mariani underperformed pre-vote polling figures, with early results showing him neck-and-neck with the current head of the region, Renaud Muselier from the Republicans. Photo by Patrick Aventurier/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Mariani Regional Elections Statement - Le Pontet

Far-right Rassemblement National (RN) candidate in Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur (PACA) for the regional elections Thierry Mariani arrives to a press conference in Le Pontet, southern France, following the first round of the French regional elections on June 20, 2021. The National Rally (RN) party's best hope was in the southeastern Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur where its campaign was fronted by Thierry Mariani, a former minister who defected from the centre-right Republicans party. But Mariani underperformed pre-vote polling figures, with early results showing him neck-and-neck with the current head of the region, Renaud Muselier from the Republicans. Photo by Patrick Aventurier/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Mariani Regional Elections Statement - Le Pontet

Far-right Rassemblement National (RN) candidate in Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur (PACA) for the regional elections Thierry Mariani speaks to the press in Le Pontet, southern France, following the first round of the French regional elections on June 20, 2021. The National Rally (RN) party's best hope was in the southeastern Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur where its campaign was fronted by Thierry Mariani, a former minister who defected from the centre-right Republicans party. But Mariani underperformed pre-vote polling figures, with early results showing him neck-and-neck with the current head of the region, Renaud Muselier from the Republicans. Photo by Patrick Aventurier/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Mariani Regional Elections Statement - Le Pontet

Far-right Rassemblement National (RN) candidate in Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur (PACA) for the regional elections Thierry Mariani arrives to a press conference in Le Pontet, southern France, following the first round of the French regional elections on June 20, 2021. The National Rally (RN) party's best hope was in the southeastern Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur where its campaign was fronted by Thierry Mariani, a former minister who defected from the centre-right Republicans party. But Mariani underperformed pre-vote polling figures, with early results showing him neck-and-neck with the current head of the region, Renaud Muselier from the Republicans. Photo by Patrick Aventurier/ABACAPRESS.COM