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Leaders of France’s left-wing parties on Friday voiced their outrage as the new Prime Minister Michel Barnier prepared to announce the formation of a centre-right government, more than two months after a leftist alliance won snap parliamentary elections. The coordinator of the left-wing France Unbowed party, Manuel Bompard, told the broadcaster France Bleu Provence that the new administration represented an act of “democracy denial that is completely unacceptable and intolerable.” “It is a government of losers that continues the course of previous governments despite having lost the last parli…

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