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Radical leftist to chair French parliamentary finance committee
French MPs have selected Éric Coquerel, a radical leftist who calls himself an opponent of neoliberalism and capitalism, to chair the Nationwide Assembly’s very important finance committee, heralding problems in parliament for president Emmanuel Macron’s minority governing administration.
The elevation on Thursday of Coquerel — an MP in Seine-Saint-Denis north of Paris for Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s pink-green alliance, the New Ecological and Social People’s Union (Nupes) — came just after Nupes turn into the largest group in parliament in opposition to Macron’s governing coalition of centrist get-togethers. Assembly guidelines say the finance committee must be chaired by an opposition MP.
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