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Jean-Luc Melenchon (C), leader of France's Parti de Gauche political party and the Front de Gauche political party's candidate for the 2012 French presidential election and French Communist deputy Marie-Georges Buffet (L)
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French Front de Gauche leftist candidate for the 2012 French presidential election, Jean-Luc Melenchon is pictured during a campaign meeting in Lille Northern France, on March 27, 2012. Photo by Jean-Yves Bonvarlet/ABACAPRESS.COM
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Front de Gauche candidate Jean-Luc Melenchon participates to a meeting of the European left Party, (PGE-Parti de la gauche europeenne), in headquarters of french communist party, in Paris, France, on October 7,
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Left Front (Front de Gauche) party's candidate for 2012 French presidential election, Jean-Luc Melenchon participates at the 36th France Nature Environment congress in Montreuil, near Paris, France on January 28, 2012. Photo
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