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Bank of France head hopes political gridlock clears by September for budget vote
arliament of the euro zone's second-largest economy must vote on the country's budget. Last Sunday's parliamentary election plunged France into uncharted waters, with three politically divergent blocs emerging and no obvious path to forming a …