President Emmanuel Macron fights a crunch parliamentary election against a green-left alliance.
It's not even two months since Emmanuel Macron was convincingly re-elected as president but he is already in a crunch election that could prevent him pushing through his reforms.Mr Macron beat the far right in April, but this time the challenge is harder.
But Nupes have galvanised voters with a promise to fight spiralling prices, bring down the retirement age and tackle climate change. Green leaders and many green voters back them, accusing President Macron of doing little in the past five years.Paris voter As the sun went down on the campaign on Friday night, Nupes spokesman Ian Brossat told supporters in Longjumeau south of Paris: "They didn't think the left and Greens could get together - it would be chaos and catastrophe; but the chaos today is economic, with food prices going up. We've got 10 million people in poverty.
Former Marxist Jean-Luc Mélenchon has long wanted France to leave Nato but says that is now not a priority. However, he remains controversial,and promising to naturalise Wikileaks founder Julian Assange as French if he wins the election. The local candidate is only a few points behind the ruling party rival. But in the next-door constituency Amélie de Montchalin trailed in the first round and defeat would mean losing her job as minister.Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire joined the campaign trail to help Amélie de Montchalin ahead of the vote
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