Polling booths open in the second round of French regional poll Polling booths opened on Sunday morning in Henin-Beaumont, a town run by the far-right National Front (FN), in the second round of France's regional elections in which the FN are hoping to win control of a region for the first time. FN leader, Marine Le Pen, heads the party list in the economically depressed northeastern Nord-Pas-de-Calais-Picardie region. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES