Von der Leyen says ‘centre is holding’ as far right surges in EU elections – as it happened
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European commission president says ‘there remains a majority in the centre for a strong Europe’ as far right makes huge gains across continent; Emmanuel Macron makes shock election move

"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."

  • Dop@lemmy.worldEnglish
    19·
    6 months ago

    Comparing it to Chirac’s situation is downplaying how crazy te move is right now. Can you imagine how fucked up this is? Like “oh, the far right has more than twice as many votes as we got, it must be some sort of big misclick situation, lets check it out !”

    • kandoh@reddthat.comEnglish
      211·
      6 months ago

      I think it’s more that the situation is only going to get worse the longer we wait so he’s pulling the trigger now for the best conditions he’s ever going to get. Not great

      • Dop@lemmy.worldEnglish
        31·
        6 months ago

        The conditions he spent years building? Yeah, I’m not falling for that.

    • Nimo@lemmy.worldEnglish
      31·
      6 months ago

      Like I said: a dangerous gamble with the Fifth Republic…

      • Dop@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        6 months ago

        We all know how the far right has a hard time letting go of it’s grip on power, that’s for sure. But this ils no ‘gamble’, like he’d be cornered to do this, he led us here. He is deliberately playing with the french like they’re just paws in his self-centered game.