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Socialist Party suspends participation in France's left-wing Nupes coalition

FILE PHOTO: French leftist party La France Insoumise leader Jean-Luc Melenchon (R) speaks with Socialist Party politician Olivier Faure at a press conference in Paris on May 19, 2022. On October 17, 2023 Socialist Party leader Olivier Faure felt that La France insoumise leader Jean-Luc Melenchon could "no longer claim to be the one who embodies the whole of the left and ecology." AFP - THOMAS SAMSON

France's Socialist Party has voted on a "moratorium" on its participation in the Nupes opposition coalition and its cooperation with the hard-left France Unbowed party leader, Jean-Luc Mélenchon.

Overnight Tuesday, the Socialist Party's national council met for six hours, after which is was decided – with 54.15% of the vote – on a "moratorium on its participation in the Nupes left-wing coalition, denouncing the persistent, conflictual nature of the France Unbowed (LFI) party.

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