{"id":171143,"date":"2025-06-09T20:25:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T20:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/171143\/"},"modified":"2025-06-09T20:25:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T20:25:09","slug":"macron-wont-rule-out-fresh-elections-in-france-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/171143\/","title":{"rendered":"Macron won\u2019t rule out fresh elections in France \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/emmanuel-macron-france-europe-national-assembly-parliament-budget\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The move backfired spectacularly<\/a>, with an unexpectedly strong showing by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lemonde.fr\/en\/france\/article\/2024\/07\/07\/french-elections-left-projected-to-win-most-seats-ahead-of-macron-s-coalition-and-far-right_6676978_7.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">an impromptu left-wing alliance<\/a> beating both Macron\u2019s electoral coalition and the RN.<\/p>\n<p>France\u2019s political landscape has since been fractious, leading many to speculate Macron would be tempted to call elections again as soon as the law permits, in early July. In April Macron rubbished press reports he was planning to dissolve parliament again, saying he had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/emmanuel-macron-report-new-snap-election-nonsense\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">never considered doing so<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In Nice, where he is attending the UN Oceans Conference, Macron said he wants to see more cooperation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe political parties who are able to form a majority in the National Assembly need to show that they can work together, like our neighbors do,\u201d he said. \u201cThat\u2019s what democracy is about in moments where countries are divided.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But for as long as that cooperation remains elusive, the constitutional power to roll the dice again will occupy Macron\u2019s mind \u2014 whether he admits it or not.<\/p>\n<p>Nicholas Camut contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The move backfired spectacularly, with an unexpectedly strong showing by an impromptu left-wing alliance beating both Macron\u2019s electoral&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":171144,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[31,33,34,2000,299,36,43,5111],"class_list":{"0":"post-171143","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-democracy","9":"tag-elections","10":"tag-emmanuel-macron","11":"tag-eu","12":"tag-europe","13":"tag-france","14":"tag-macron","15":"tag-parliament"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114655285992345994","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}