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Left-wing alliance calls for street protests after Macron rules out leftist PM

What's the problem? NFP members Manuel Bompard (C), Lucie Castets (L) and Marine Tondelier (R) attended a first round of cross-party discussions at the Elysée, but say they won't be going back. © AFP - DIMITAR DILKOFF

President Emmanuel Macron’s decision not to accept the left-wing New Popular Front’s candidate as prime minister has been met with anger and the promise of street protests.

For the last six weeks France has been run by a caretaker administration that cannot make any new policy.

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