French Left Captures Senate

Socialists and other left-wing parties captured the French Senate in yesterday’s elections for the first time since the founding of the Fifth Republic in 1958, reports the BBC . France’s sputtering economy and high unemployment, combined with divisions among the right, caused the dramatic shift. This “will go down in history,…

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French Left Captures Senate

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