France’s left-wing parties say they want to run together as an alliance in the parliamentary elections called at short notice by President Emmanuel Macron. Late on Monday evening, the Left Party, Socialists, Communists and Greens agreed in principle to form a joint Front Populaire (Popular Front) movement. They said in a statement that they would therefore put forward only one candidate in each constituency, and not compete against each other. “We want a programme of social and ecological transformation to build an alternative to Emmanuel Macron and fight the racist project of the extreme righ…