Unions call for strikes to pressure Macron over leftist coalition government
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The new legislature’s inaugural session is scheduled for July 18.
With just 15 days before the start of the Olympic Games in Paris, a leader of a major French union has called for mass strikes to pressure President Emmanuel Macron into “respecting the results” of recent legislative elections and allow a leftist coalition to form a new government.