The high vote totals secured by several far right parties in European Union elections between June 6 and 9 was widely predicted. The European Parliament is weak, having few powers and no meaningful ability to make law.
When the French President Macron announced that he would call parliamentary elections early and treat them as a referendum on whether the RN should form the next government in France, this news came as a shock even to Macron's advisers.
In the French presidential elections of 2017 and 2022, Macron was able to boost his popularity by presenting himself as the only political figure capable of stopping the far right. No doubt, he believed that a similar gamble again would have the same consequences.
Every poll indicates that Macron is likely to see his vote fall sharply. One difference between now and 2017 was that, then, Macron was a new fo...
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