A centrist or a communist? France’s new lawmakers to pick a speaker as political turmoil persists

PARIS (AP) — France’s influential lower house of parliament, the National Assembly, will elect its speaker on Thursday evening after a chaotic early election called by President Emmanuel Macron produced a hung legislature. Two figures emerged as favorites after two nonconclusive rounds of vote: outgoing Speaker Yael Braun-Pivet of Macron’s centrist party, and the candidate […]
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