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France: Can the left unite behind a single candidate?

France: Can the left unite behind a single candidate?
France 24 Sunday 11 October 2026, 14:41 UTC By FRANCE24 1 min read
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To display this content from YouTube, you must enable advertisement tracking and audience measurement. One of your browser extensions seems to be blocking the video player from loading. To watch this content, you may need to disable it on this site. France: Can the left unite behind a single candidate? Issued on: Share Five candidates are vying to lead France's social-democratic left in the 2027 presidential election, with a cyberattack disrupting the primary vote. Can the left unite behind one candidate? We discuss this with our guest Joseph Downing, Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at Aston University.
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