French left agrees in principle on rare coalition deal to take on Macron

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By Michel Rose and Elizabeth Pineau PARIS (Reuters) -France’s Socialist Party and the hard-left La France Insoumise (LFI) party reached an agreement in principle on Wednesday 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 Macron of a majority in parliament in the June 12-19 vote and block his pro-business agenda, after he was re-elected president in April. “We can and will beat Emmanuel Macron and we can do it with a majority to govern for a radical programme,” LFI lawmaker Adrien …

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