Macron braces for setback in France’s local polls
French President Emmanuel Macron is expected to suffer heavy losses in local polls. – EPA pic, June 28, 2020.
FRANCE’S ruling party is expected today to be handed a stinging rebuke by voters in the final round of local elections, the first big political test for President Emmanuel Macron since the coronavirus crisis began to ease. The first round controversially went ahead on March 15 just as the epidemic was gaining deadly momentum but the second phase scheduled for March 22 was put off to June 28 after France went into lockdown.
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