France’s Left Unites to Challenge Macron, Le Pen for Power
- Polls show bloc could be bigger than Macron’s in parliament
- Former President Hollande backs deal, says unity essential
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Left-leaning political parties in France sealed an alliance to join forces in the upcoming legislative election, with polls showing it can win the second-biggest bloc behind Marine Le Pen’s National Rally.
Parties including the Greens, Socialists, Communists and leftist firebrand Jean-Luc Melenchon’s France Unbowed agreed they would only field one candidate in each of the 577 districts for the first round of voting June 30.