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There was an outpouring of criticism on Friday from France’s left wing ahead of the appointment of the new government in Paris, as they will play no significant role in the future Cabinet despite emerging as the strongest force in the election. The coordinator of the left-wing France Unbowed party, Manuel Bompard, told the broadcaster France Bleu Provence that it was 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 parliamentary elections, and also includes …

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