The centre wants to weaken Marine Le Pen’s hard right, in or out of power
is nothing if not a risk-taker. At the age of 38, an electoral debutant, he launched a new centrist party and went on to win the French presidency in 2017, barely a year later. Now Mr Macron has taken a fresh political gamble that puts his credibility and authority on the line for the three years that remain of his second term in office.
His unexpected decision, announced on June 9th, to dissolve the National Assembly and hold snap elections at a two-round vote on June 30th and July 7th, has stunned even his own deputies, and left all parties scrambling to book venues, draw up a manifesto and plan their campaigns.on June 9th. The party garnered just half of the share of the vote secured by Marine Le Pen’s hard-right party, National Rally (, scored over 31%, a party record at European elections.
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