alliance

The Dog Control Coalition, an alliance of groups including the RSPCA, the Dogs Trust and the Kennel Club, backs the idea.

The result was a hung parliament in which Macron's centrist partners lost their majority and had to seek alliances with other parties.

“The civil society is always the one who saved the day — the civilians, the students, the churches, the alliances,” he says.

With its 40 or so MPs, the LR has become a key part of the centre-right alliance that is trying to run France.

Jamaat-e-Islami is now in talks with some other Islamist political parties to form an alliance, but Rahman says he is not worried about this prospect.