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French President Emmanuel Macron’s Renaissance party will not put up candidates in constituencies where they have little chance of winning, but will encourage its supporters to vote for other centrists, Prime Minister Gabriel Attal told broadcaster RTL on Monday. “There are certain constituencies where we know that our candidates are not in the best position to prevent a victory of the extremists,” Attal said. Renaissance would be supporting other candidates instead, he said. Attal said that 65 of the 577 constituencies were in this category. Responding to a surge in support for the right-wing…

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