The French left has united for the first time since the 1970s and is running candidates in the upcoming legislative elections who will serve as a counterweight to President Emmanuel Macron. But there are dissidents, and those campaigning for the leftwing coalition are having to work hard to bring people together.
“I campaign with my personality. I’m very direct and I have strong convictions,” says Caroline Mecary, passing out flyers in front of a supermarket on a busy street corner in Paris’s 12th arrondissement.
