The seven candidates to be Socialist-backed presidential candidate before the debate Reuters/Philippe Wojazer
A rebel Socialist’s call for a universal basic income dominated the first of three debate’s between the seven would-be centre-left candidates for France’s presidential election this year.
Rebel Socialist Benoît Hamon, who resigned as education minister in protest at what he saw as the government’s rightward drift, has made the basic income proposal his key policy and Jean-Luc Bennahmias, the leader of the small Democratic and Ecologist Union, also backs the call.And the question provided the only real controversy in the first of three televised debates ahead of […]
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