France's President Macron calls snap election after far-right triumph in EU vote
France's President Macron calls snap election after far-right triumph in EU vote
“We’re ready to exercise power,” Marine Le Pen declares.
Eerily reminiscent of David Cameron calling for a Brexit referendum.
More similar to Sunak calling the current General Election. It's very unlikely they will win but they have to do something rather than let it get even worse!
Nah I dunno, Sunak had to call an election within the next few months, and economically this was the best time - just after a slight fall in inflation, which will only go back up again by the end of the summer.
With Marcon here, he's in a pretty secure position, I don't believe he needs to call an election within the next few months and he seems to only be doing it to have some sort of "round 2" that he blindly hopes he'll win. That, to me, reminds me more of Cameron.
I wonder what's the strategy here. If I had to guess I'd say he wants to see them fail miserably, so they lose support as quickly as they got it. I'm not sure that's a good idea tho.
It's a common strategy for the president to nominate it's most dangerous opposant. During the next election, this one could not criticize a government where he was.
However, Macron shouldn't have the right to present himself a third time. Does he get ride of this limitation ? Is it actually a conviction move, to help the far right ? Or is their a greatest interest of his class to get even more authoritarian regimes ?
In any cases, we gently rioting yesterday after this announcement.