Tactical voting to stymie France's Front National

France’s Front National is preparing a last push for regional election votes as an opinion poll showed tactical voting will keep it from power in two main target regions even though it topped a first-round vote nationally.

Marine Le Pen’s anti- Europe, anti-immigrant party scored record gains in the first round, driven by fears over the IS attacks in Paris that killed 130 people last month

In a TV interview ahead of a rally in Paris of the party faithful later in the day and Sunday’s decisive second round vote, the far-right party’s leader Le Pen was upbeat over prospects of victory.