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The far-left France Invincible (LFI) has nominated veteran politician Iget Bello as its candidate for prime minister as the left-wing New Popular Front (NFP) coalition tries to agree on a candidate for prime minister after winning the most seats in the July 7 snap election.
The former Communist Party member from the French overseas island of Reunion is a respected politician and her candidacy is supported by most parties in the NFP coalition, but the Socialists do not seem to want to support her, explained Damien Leconte from the French Communist Party at the Sorbonne University in Paris, France on the 24th.
After nearly a week of intense negotiations, LFI’s Jean-Luc Mélenchon still welcomed the latest “solution” to break the coalition’s political deadlock.
In a speech to supporters yesterday, Mélenchon said Bello was a committed “anti-racist feminist and a solution to the political deadlock.”
Fabien Roussel, leader of the French Communist Party, told local television that the 73-year-old politician from the French island of Reunion had the “right qualities” to take on the prime minister’s post.
The left-wing coalition New People’s Front (NFP) won 182 seats in the National Assembly elections held on July 7.
The centrist Zayed Noor Bloc, the political alliance of France’s incumbent president, won 168 parliamentary seats, with Marine Le Pen’s far-right National Rally (RN) in third place having 143 seats.
The liberal-conservative Republicans won 45 parliamentary seats, the right-wing coalition won 15 seats, the left-wing bloc won 13 seats and the regionalists won four seats.
No single party won enough votes to form a parliamentary majority on its own, as an absolute majority in the National Assembly requires winning 289 parliamentary seats.
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