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French Socialists split over alliance with hard-left party in mayoral runoffs
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Several candidates from France’s mainstream left have joined forces with Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s France Unbowed to boost their chances in mayoral runoffs on Sunday, even as others reject any association with the hard-left party, exposing a deepening divide in the French left ahead of next year's presidential election.