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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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[–] Xeroxchasechase 61 points 5 months ago (3 children)

He acknowledge he lost his credibility and therefore he dissolves the parliament? He just gain my appreciation

[–] [email protected] 48 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Because delaying mean’s momentum against him will continue to grow

You wait it out if you think there’s no chance for you or you hope it fades

[–] Cosmicomical 25 points 5 months ago (2 children)
[–] then_three_more 14 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

*fronce and a hard place

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It's the correct move. It's democracy, you gotta accept the will of the people... even when they're being idiots.

[–] Cosmicomical 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

unfortunately they are being manipulated into being idiots

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

The euro election seems to be a low turnout election, so this could absolutely be a wakeup call to apathetic voters as well.

It's a gamble but it's a calculated one.

[–] Dop 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)

That's be cause what u/balinares forgot to mention is that Macron has been steadily giving the far right his (barely disguized) support by leading policies that are very well aligned with far right ideas, and he has continuously portrayed lefists as crazy. Oh and he also kept setting up debates between his party and the far right leaders, putting them in some sort of 'legitimate' position (like there's been a debate between our prime minister and the head of the far right list for these election, there was absolutely no reason to do it, but hey who give a crap about fairplay uh?). Oh and also we now have our own fox news (cnews here), broadcasting on a public network, but not respecting there duty to remain neutral. But no wonders why, since these media are owned by a far right billionaire.

TLDR: Macron carefully set the conditions for the far right to win these election by portraying them as the only opposition, and now he's all whiny that surprise surprise, the far right is aslo far ahead.

[–] Xeroxchasechase 3 points 5 months ago

Oh.... Unfortunately, that makes more sense :(

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I know right, we'd been waiting for the UK Tory party to realise that since 2022.

[–] fox2263 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

We've had two elections since then.

While I hoped the Tories weren't popular in 2016, unfortunately for all of us, Boris (and Corbyn proving about as popular as a fart in a spacesuit) kept them relevant.