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Except that unlike Corbyn, LFI doesn't bow - they're "France unbowed" after all - and fight back the accusations.

Which brings us to what happened this morning, where Mélenchon asked an open question to Macron: "Say we committed to no LFI members in the government, would you nominate Lucie Castets Prime Minister?"

This forces Macron's hand: if he says "no", as Mélenchon himself wrote, it'd show that Macron's refusal to have LFI in the government is just a pretext to deny the election results.