French minister Beaune: against any alliance with Le Pen’s far right party

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Published: Jun 22, 2022, 06:52 GMT+00:00

PARIS (Reuters) - French European Affairs minister Clement Beaune said he was against any alliance with Marine Le Pen's far-right party Rassemblement National to vote through laws in parliament, where President Emmanuel Macron's camp lost its majority.

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PARIS (Reuters) – French European Affairs minister Clement Beaune said he was against any alliance with Marine Le Pen’s far-right party Rassemblement National to vote through laws in parliament, where President Emmanuel Macron’s camp lost its majority.

“Let me be absolutely clear, there cannot be any alliance, even a circumstantial one, with Rassemblement National. We have no ideas in common with the Rassemblement National,” he told Europe 1 radio.

(Reporting by Benoit Van Overstraeten; Editing by Sudip Kar-Gupta)

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