Against all odds, a communist soars in French election polls

[Pachamama]

7. He is NOT communist - Social Democrat who is forming an alliance with communist party of France

This is no different than the SPD (Sozial Party Deutschland) that is teaming up in an alliance with "Die Linke" and other left groups to then defeat Angela Merkel and the CDU/CSU in Germany.

Unlike our 2 party system in US, the parliamentary system requires majority and alliances to work together to defeat another party


And then they choose together who leads them - usually the one that has a majority of the alliance. The communist party will never win on it's own. But to defeat extreme right like Marine Le Pen, that is how you do it.

Too bad the Wapo story isn't clear on this.

But OP headline is misleading and would be correct to not declaring that a Communist is leading