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Defiant Macron Predicts Chaos if France Succumbs to Extremes

 

President Emmanuel Macron called on people of good will to come together to defend the Republic in the snap election he decided to call.

President Emmanuel Macron in Paris on Wednesday.Credit...Stephane De Sakutin/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

President Emmanuel Macron in Paris on Wednesday.Credit...Stephane De Sakutin/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

Declaring himself an “incorrigible optimist,” President Emmanuel Macron of France appealed on Wednesday to all French people “who reject the extremes” to vote for centrist parties in snap elections and so save the Republic from the bigotry of the far right and the antisemitism of the extreme left.

At a two-hour news conference, a third of it consisting of a speech by the president, Mr. Macron painted a somber picture of economic chaos, lawlessness and a society where there would be “true French citizens and lesser ones” if Marine Le Pen’s National Rally came to power.

“I do not intend to hand the keys of power to the extreme right in 2027,” Mr. Macron, who is term limited, vowed, alluding to the next presidential election.

Yet by dissolving the National Assembly and calling parliamentary elections starting 18 days from now, Mr. Macron has opened the possibility that he may have to hand over some of those keys in 2024. His gamble that the National Rally, which won more than double the vote of Mr. Macron’s centrist alliance in European Parliament elections on Sunday, will not repeat that performance in a domestic vote is a high-risk one.

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Author: Editors Desk, Roger Cohen

Source: N.Y Times

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