MOSCOW (Sputnik) – The left-wing France Unbowed party’s national coordinator rejected on Tuesday the idea of joining forces with French President Emmanuel Macron’s centrist Ensemble coalition, arguing they had different goals.
«The party of the Unbowed will only govern with the purpose of implementing its own program… I will not join a government that will neither restore fair taxation nor conduct a policy of fair wealth distribution,» Manuel Bompard told the BFMTV broadcaster.
The centrists, who floundered in the first round of the snap parliamentary polls, have been considering forming a united front against the first-placed right-wing National Rally by working together with the runner-up leftist New Popular Front alliance, which includes France Unbowed.
Ensemble won 20.04% of the vote on Sunday. The National Rally and its allies won 33.15%, which translates into up to 270 seats in the 577-seat National Assembly, while the New Popular Front secured 27.99% of the vote. A party needs 289 seats to have an absolute majority.
