France's longest-running annual arts festival has threatened to quit its home in the southern city of Avignon should the far-right National Front win the mayor's office, a day after the party topped the polls in the first round of local elections.
The Festival d'Avignon has been held in the city each summer since 1947 and regularly attracts tens of thousands of spectators who come to see hundreds of performers from around the world.
But the festival’s director, Olivier Py, told France Info radio Monday that he would look for a new home for the event if the National Front (FN) comes out on top in the second round of the elections on March 30th.
"I cannot work with a National Front mayor's office. That is for me something unimaginable," he said.
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