PARIS (AFP) – French President Emmanuel Macron’s centrist government was making a last-ditch bid for votes yesterday, four days ahead of Parliamentary elections where the far-right has its best-ever chance of leading the government.
The tremors from Macron calling snap elections after his party suffered a drubbing in European polls are far from abating, with even figures close to the president acknowledging many French people are uneasy over the political crisis he has unleashed.
The far-right National Rally (RN) has a clear lead in opinion polls ahead of Sunday’s first round of voting in the parliamentary elections, followed by the left-wing New Popular Front (NFP) coalition with Macron’s centrist alliance lagging in third.
Aged just 28, RN party leader Jordan Bardella could become prime minister after the second round on July 7, although he has said he will only take the job if the RN wins an absolute majority in Parliament.
