French Socialist party agrees alliance with far left for June elections
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Pact with Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s La France Insoumise is attempt to deprive Emmanuel Macron of majority in parliamentFrance’s Socialist party and Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s hard-left La France Insoumise (LFI) party have reached an agreement in principle to form an alliance for June’s parliamentary election.The coalition pact, which the Greens and Communists agreed to earlier this week, is an attempt to deprive Emmanuel Macron of a majority in parliament and block his pro-business agenda after he was re-elected president in April. Continue reading...