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"Emmanuel Macron, the French president, has announced that he is dissolving the national assembly, and calling for legislative elections on June 30 and July 7.

The French president said that he can’t pretend nothing has happened, that the outcome of the EU election is not good for his government and that the rise of nationalists is a danger for France and Europe."

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Maybe he hopes that left-leaning voters will get mobilised by the election outcome today.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's a bold strategy, let's see if it pans out.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Fantastic use for this

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

He called during his televised speech to get rid of the "ruckus causers", separately from the far right.

The current largest leftist party had (until last night) close to a third of Parliament, and have a reputation of loudly contesting shit they don't stand for.

I really don't think Macron's intention is to give them a chance at more votes. If anything, he's hoping this forces leftist voters to move towards the center, seeing as how his own party barely cleared 14% (the largest far right party did over 30, and a smaller splinter party got around 7% on its own).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Thanks for the insight. I didn't know about the leftist party, we only read about Le Pen here.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

I'm definitely more mobilized than ever