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Melenchon Urges French Citizens to Vote for La France Insoumise

© Sputnik / Kristina Afanasyeva / Go to the mediabankFrench presidential candidate Jean-Luc Melenchon holds rally in Lille
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Jean-Luc Melenchon urged the French citizens on Sunday to vote for his party at parliamentary election if they want to sever ties with the past.

Jean-Luc Melenchon, candidate of the French far-left Parti de Gauche and candidate for the French 2017 presidential election, casts his ballot in the first round of 2017 French presidential election at a polling station in Paris, France, April 23, 2017. - Sputnik International
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) — Jean-Luc Melenchon, head of the left-wing political movement La France Insoumise (Unsubmissive France) who finished forth in the first round of the presidential election, urged the French citizens on Sunday to vote for his party at parliamentary election if they want to sever ties with the past.

"I call on all those who want to sever ties with the past to vote at parliamentary election for La France Insoumise. People, unite, do not give up. This country is condemned neither to the rich nor to the haters," Melenchon wrote on Twitter.

He stressed that their "resistance could be victorious" at the second round of the legislative elections, set for June 18.

Emmanuel Macron is winning the French presidential election with 63.16 percent of votes after 75 percent of ballots counted.

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