Candidates race to register for French election but one convicted of spousal assault withdraws

PARIS (AP) — Candidates were racing to register for an early parliamentary election before a Sunday evening deadline for a vote that’s redrawing France’s political landscape.

But a left-wing alliance newly formed to counter the surge of the far right lost a prospective lawmaker previously convicted for spousal assault.

Adrien Quatennens announced the withdrawal of his candidacy that had opened cracks in the fledgling New Popular Front. The uneasy coalition of parties from the far-left...