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'The New Popular Front is Ready to Govern'
The Morning Star publishes the open letter to the French people from New Popular Front prime ministerial candidate Lucie Castets and leaders of its component parties, to inform British readers of the left's case for government in France
Lucie Castets, center, the New Popular Front coalition’s choice for prime minister, speaks beside Green Party leader Marine Tondelier , right, and Communist party national secretary Fabien Roussel, second left, at the Elysee Palace after a meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron last Friday

LAST July, you mobilised massively at the polls to refuse the arrival of the extreme right in power and to break with the policies pursued for seven years. We thank you for this.

And since then? Nothing. The President of the Republic is procrastinating rather than drawing the consequences of these elections. How long are we going to continue as if nothing had happened at the beginning of the summer?

You have placed the New Popular Front at the top of the poll, without giving anyone an absolute majority. This result puts obligations on us all, and first and foremost obliges the one who caused it.

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