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French President Emmanuel Macron arrives at Andrews Air Force Base to attend the Nato summit in Washington, July 10, 2024
“The only good Tory is a dead Tory."
LEFT parties in France accused the French President of exercising a “royal veto” today after he refused to appoint a prime minister from the left-wing coalition that gained most seats in last weekend’s National Assembly election.
President Emmanuel Macron has called on the country’s political parties to build a “republican” majority at the National Assembly before he announces a new prime minister.
Though no party won a majority in Sunday’s election, the left-wing New Popular Front (NPF) alliance of communists, socialists and Greens topped the poll with 193 seats in the 577-strong National Assembly.
As global fascism grows, ROGER McKENZIE urges the left to reclaim May Day’s revolutionary roots — not as an act of nostalgia, but as fuel for building a ‘community of resistance’ against exploitation and the rise of fascism
