What is the New Popular Front, winner of France’s shock election?

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With a radical manifesto and an uneasy alliance, the left and green alliance has a difficult task ahead

The New Popular Front (NFP), a four-party left-green alliance, was the shock winner of Sunday’s French parliamentary election, returning 182 deputies to a 577-seat assembly now split between three large opposing blocs, none with a majority.

Here’s a look at which parties make up the NFP, what it proposes, who its key figures are – and whether they may be able to continue to work together.

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