French PM warns disgruntled Socialists they could 'disappear'


  • World
  • Sunday, 15 Jun 2014

PARIS (Reuters) - Prime Minister Manuel Valls warned the French left it could "disappear" and populist leader Marine Le Pen get through to a presidential election run-off, calling on his Socialist party to back his government's business-friendly reform plans.

France's Socialists are reeling from humiliating losses in local and European elections this year, with the latter seeing the hard-right National Front top a national vote for the first time.

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