PARIS (Reuters) - French left-wing presidential hopefuls on Thursday rejected Socialist Party candidate Anne Hidalgo's call to unite behind a single challenger, an outcome that leaves the left fragmented and scant chance of winning the April election.
Hidalgo, who is also Paris mayor, warned a day earlier that if the left did not unite, it would "find it impossible to continue to exist in our country".
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