French Socialist party agrees alliance with far left for June elections
by Reuters in Paris from World news | The Guardian on (#5YVXG)
Pact with Jean-Luc Melenchon's La France Insoumise is attempt to deprive Emmanuel Macron of majority in parliament
France's Socialist party and Jean-Luc Melenchon'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.
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