On Sunday, Benoit Hamon, a relative outsider, won the French Socialist Party’s presidential primary, which means he will run for president in the country’s upcoming elections.
His three main – and pretty radical – policies seem to be gaining some ground. Who is Benoit Hamon?
Right wing ideas are gaining traction all over the world – things like reducing welfare and cracking down on immigration – Hamon represents pretty much the opposite. He is thought of as a good old-fashioned ‘socialist’.Hamon was briefly a member of the current French president’s government – confusingly, the Socialist Party – but left because […]
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