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Mr Sunak, watch & learn.

https://youtube.com/shorts/GlZ9BpjwhDA?s...HxsBydrOzE

After taking a kicking from Marine Le Pen's mob in European Elections, Emmanuel Macron rolls the dice, dissolves the National Assembly and calls an election! Has he just done a Sunak ?

^ And the elections will be just before Olympics.
But he's not putting his neck on the line by calling a Presidential election. So he'll still be prominent at the opening ceremony.

got a feeling its going to backfire on him spectacularly

Belgium's Prime Minister Alexander De Croo also resigned after far right gains in European Union voting.

Giovanni Capoccia, Professor of Politics at Oxford Uni, posted a thread on twitter in which he speculates on Macron's motives. That Macron is calling Le Pen to a head on confrontation in a parliamentary election, where there are higher stakes & higher turnout than in EU elections. That the EU results would be a wake up call on the potential of National Rally & he would run a campaign based on a call to arms for all anti NR citizens to get behind him & stop the parties rise, he points out that a similar effect could happen on the right with supporters of the likes of Zemmour moving to NR to deal a blow to Macron.

If Macron did lose, it would result in a cohabitation with NR in which Jordan Bardella would likely be PM. Capoccia describes Bardella & NR leadership as incompetent & theorises that Macron will hope that 3 yrs of that incompetence in government would damage the party in the eyes of the public & that as President Macron, would be able to sabotage the Bardella administration.

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All very high risk, it could blow up in his face but whatever you think of him, Macron is not Sunak & is one of the 4/8 Presidents to win a second term in the history of France's fifth republic, he can win an election even when unpopular. However he did not win a majority in the National Assembley at the last election & that was before the pension reforms.

Twenty Barclays bank branches across the country have been targeted by pro palestine action group.

(Today 07:44 )Charlemagne Wrote:  ^ And the elections will be just before Olympics.
But he's not putting his neck on the line by calling a Presidential election. So he'll still be prominent at the opening ceremony.

Very true that it's not a Presidential Election but as he's basically said he trusts the French People to vote the way he wants them to, he's effectively made it a vote of confidence in his Presidency.

I know we have the opportunity on July 4, but i get the feeling he is risking not opening the Olympics

What happens if he loses?