🇫🇷Weekly Dispatch - Political self-crowning

The French Senate rejects CETA free trade agreement, Jean-Luc Mélenchon launches 2027 Presidential bid, Rachida Dati aims to reform culture pass, and François Bayrou is crowned in re-election

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