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Socialist French minister says may vote for centrist Macron

PARIS, Feb 21 (Reuters) Stephane Le Foll, the French Socialist government's spokesman and its agriculture minister, said today he backs his party's official candidate Benoit Hamon but might vote for independent centrist Emmanuel Macron instead.
Hamon, elected as candidate in a Socialist party primary in January, is struggling to make an impact on the presidential election. He is pushing a more hard left programme that appears to be increasing divisions within the party.
Some left-wing voters also prefer independent leftist Jean-Luc Melenchon to him, and people on the right of the Socialist party are tempted by Macron, who is favourite to win the May 7 runoff according to opinion polls.
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