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Macron angers ally with parliament picks
Macron angered fellow centrist Francois Bayrou and faced mockery from his opponents after his La Republique En Marche (REM, Republic on the Move) party unveiled more than 400 candidates for crucial parliamentary elections in June. “It’s a big recycling operation for the Socialist party,” Bayrou told L’Obs magazine, adding that candidates from his MoDem party had been offered only 35 constituencies instead of the 120 he expected. Bayrou, a veteran centrist and presidential candidate, threw his support behind Macron at the end of February at a crucial time when the 39-year-old president-elect’s campaign needed new momentum. “When I offered him my support, he was at 18 percent,” Bayrou added bitterly. Macron, who will be inaugurated on Sunday, has promised to refresh France’s parliament and his party unveiled 428 out of 577 candidates on Thursday. Half of them have never held elected ******, including a retired female bullfighter and a star mathematician, and half of them are women. The initial reaction from three out of four voters was positive, a survey published Friday by the Harris Interactive polling group suggested. “Probably the biggest success of Emmanuel Macron is having motivated so many people who were outside of politics to have committed themselves to try to renew things,” his spokesman Benjamin Griveaux said on Friday. But as well as angering Bayrou, REM was forced to correct its list after around 10 people said they had **t agreed to stand for the party or had never applied to be a candidate. One was Mourad Boudjellal, the wealthy president of Toulon rugby club, who said that while he was flattered about being approached, “it is **t my ambition” to enter politics. The vice-president of the far-right National Front, Florian Philippot, accused Macron of “amateurism.” The parliamentary selection process is seen as a tricky and risky balancing act for Macron, who will take over from unpopular Socialist Francois Hollande. Without his own parliamentary majority, the former investment banker will find it hard to push through his planned reforms of the labour market, pensions, unemployment benefits and education. أكثر... 
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