France is on the brink of all out conflict
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Opinion piece
https://www.pressreader.com/uk/the-sunday-telegraph/20240616/282037627328318
As Lenin said,
There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.”
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Upended by Emmanuel Macron’s decision last week to call a snap election after the hard-Right National Rally won over a third of the vote in the European elections, French politics is now in a state of chaos. Macron deliberately chose the shortest constitutionally-compatible timeline, with a first round to be held on June 30, and the runoff on July 7.
Defiance, hostility and suspicion reign between adversaries, but also among so-called allies, forced by circumstances into unnatural coalitions. Parties that have just finished competing for voters in a proportional representation system now face a first-past-the-post contest, and have spent last week frantically cobbling together alliances.
