MOSCOW (Sputnik) – France’s New Popular Front will nominate candidate for head of French government within one week, the leader of the Socialist party, Olivier Faure, said on Monday.
«The choice [of the candidate] will be made this week, either by consensus or by vote,» Faure said, as quoted by AFP.
New French governing coalition will likely be ‘fragile’ – analyst
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Jean-Luc Melanchon’s left-wing New Popular Front coalition won the parliamentary elections, securing 182 seats (out of 577) in the French parliament. President Emmanuel Macron’s bloc gained 168 seats. Marine Le Pen and Jordan Bardelle’s National Rally got 143 parliamentary seats.
