France’s Left Appeals to Macron Allies in Coalition Maneuver
- Socialists seek to entice French president’s left-wing backers
- Political negotiations intensify after vote splits parliament
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France’s Socialist party extended an olive branch to some lawmakers of Emmanuel Macron’s movement as political jockeying gained steam in the aftermath of a messy vote that left parliament divided.
“We are clear-sighted but not sectarian, so those who want to meet us on these bases — I’m thinking, notably, about left-wing Macronists — we’ll be open,” Johanna Rolland, the Socialists’ chief negotiator and mayor of Nantes, in western France, told France 2 on Tuesday.