France’s left-wing parties pledge to team up for snap elections

France’s left-wing parties pledge to team up for snap elections

The parties include socialists, greens, communists and the more radical France Unbowed party.

Supporters of the French Socialist Party wave flags at the party’s headquarters. (AP pic)
PARIS:
France’s opposition left-wing parties late on Monday pledged to work together and nominate joint candidates in snap parliament elections later this month to challenge the government and Marine Le Pen’s far-right movement.

The country’s socialists, greens, communists and the more radical France Unbowed party in a joint release made a call for a shared platform to “present an alternative to (President) Emmanuel Macron and fight against the racist project of the far right”.

The parties said they would support a joint candidate in each electoral district from the first round of voting on June 30.

The bloc had worked together during the previous parliamentary campaign in 2022 before a leadership struggle and policy differences – including on the Gaza war – led to cracks in their alliance.

Following a massive loss for his Renaissance party in Sunday’s European Parliament election, Macron announced snap elections and dissolved the National Assembly.

In a first opinion poll released on Monday, the far-right National Rally was forecast to score the most votes without securing an absolute majority.

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