Thousands rally in Toulouse for leftist Mélenchon

Front de Gauche candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon's rally in Toulouse on Thursday.

Radio France Internationale English:

France’s hard-left candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon scored a second presidential campaign victory on Thursday night with a monster election rally in the southern city of Toulouse. But he is keeping François Hollande guessing over whether his supporters would join a Socialist-led government.

As many as 70,000 red-flag-waving supporters defied rain and packed the centre of Toulouse, according to Mélenchon’s Left Front.

Supporters from across south-west France travelled to the city in about 110 coaches to hear the former Socialist minister call for French to leave the Nato military alliance and declare a “sixth republic”.

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