US EditionFrench Socialists Split over Alliance with Hard-Left Party in Mayoral Runoffs
Local Socialist candidates formed tactical alliances with La France Insoumise in at least 16 French cities to prevent splitting the left and counter right-wing opponents, officials said.
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French Socialists split over alliance with hard-left party in mayoral runoffs
Several candidates from France’s mainstream left have joined forces with Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s France Unbowed to boost their chances in mayoral runoffs on Sunday, even as others reject any association…
Alliances, betrayals and burstings: the first round of the French municipal elections gave its verdict. What to expect for the second round?...
Cécile Beaudouin, the only female leader at the municipal level in Brest, achieved the electoral breakthrough hoped for by LFI in the first round, forcing the outgoing mayor's socialist list, in difficulty, to accept a "technical merger"... described by the right.
Socialist mayor François Cuillandre, in the run for a fifth term, was forced to join forces with unsuspecting France in order to avoid a quadrangular and a probable defeat. A merger "techn...
In the country's largest cities, the Socialist Party, often allied with the Ecologists, is the great beneficiary of this useful vote which, since 2022, has benefited the Insoumis, recalls Eve Szeftel, editor of the editorial board of Marianne.
Despite the recurring tensions between the two parties, many agreements have been reached locally to win against the right or the far right. "There are alliances where there are possibilities for victory," one observer interviewed by franceinfo notes.
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