France Unbowed, a hard-left party led by Jean-Luc Mélenchon, advanced to a runoff Sunday in Toulouse after placing second in local elections, alarming business leaders who fear the party's anticapitalist agenda will raise taxes on major employers like Airbus and derail planned infrastructure projects. The party's mayoral candidate François Piquemal denies he will increase taxes and argues his policies support workers and small businesses, while polls show the race against the incumbent center-right mayor remains tight.
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France Unbowed, a hard-left party led by Jean-Luc Mélenchon, advanced to a runoff Sunday in Toulouse after placing second in local elections, alarming business leaders who fear the party's anticapitalist agenda will raise taxes on major employers like Airbus and derail planned infrastructure projects. The party's mayoral candidate François Piquemal denies he will increase taxes and argues his policies support workers and small businesses, while polls show the race against the incumbent center-right mayor remains tight.