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Japan’s ruling party picked a leader who likes big spending and low rates, and France lost yet another prime minister after failing to reconcile the need to save money with a parliament that disagrees.

Three years ago, Australia sent a peacekeeping force of more than 100 federal police to the Solomon Islands after protesters burned buildings and breached the national parliament there.

That makes it hard for Macron to name someone on the left who could muster a majority in parliament.

He dissolved a rowdy National Assembly last year only to see voters elect an even more divided lower house of parliament.

“I told the president that the prospect of dissolving parliament was receding.”