Paris: Left-leaning lawmakers defected Tuesday to rob President Emmanuel Macron’s party of its outright majority in France’s National Assembly in a symbolic but non-paralysing setback for the embattled reformist leader. Seventeen members of Macron’s La Republique En Marche (LREM) party said they had formed a new... read full story
"we can do more and better in the National Assembly."
Photo: Emmanuel Macron at Association des maires de France (AMF) event.
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