Paris (AFP) – Benoit Hamon, the surprise frontrunner in the French Socialists’ presidential nominating contest, is on a mission to reclaim the party’s leftist roots.
Hamon, 49, whose signature proposal is the introduction of a universal basic income, is ahead of reformist ex-prime minister Manuel Valls as Sunday’s leftwing primary showdown looms.
Neither man is considered to have a real shot at the ultimate prize, which will be determined in a two-round election due in April and May.Instead, their duel has been cast as a fight for the future of the deeply split Socialist party, with Hamon embodying its traditionalist left […]
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