{"id":245096,"date":"2025-07-07T11:10:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T11:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/245096\/"},"modified":"2025-07-07T11:10:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T11:10:09","slug":"macron-can-call-for-an-election-again-will-he-firstpost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/245096\/","title":{"rendered":"Macron can call for an election again. Will he? \u2013 Firstpost"},"content":{"rendered":"

Though Macron rejected the idea of calling another election during a visit to Madagascar in April, allies have advised him not to rule it out completely. Some believe maintaining the possibility gives the president leverage over rival partiesread more<\/p>\n

One year after France\u2019s snap parliamentary election rattled the country\u2019s politics and nearly delivered power to the far right, President Emmanuel Macron once again holds the constitutional authority to dissolve the National Assembly. Though he has publicly dismissed the idea, behind the scenes, signs suggest he might still be considering a second gamble.<\/p>\n

Macron\u2019s decision to call last year\u2019s election, following the European vote on June 9, 2024, was a political shockwave. Aiming to halt the momentum of Marine Le Pen\u2019s National Rally, he instead weakened his centrist government and triggered an unstable legislative landscape.<\/p>\n

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Now, with Prime Minister Fran\u00e7ois Bayrou\u2019s government barely holding on, speculation is growing over whether Macron might make another high-stakes move.<\/p>\n

Aftermath of a gamble<\/strong><\/p>\n

The 2024 snap election severely damaged Macron\u2019s parliamentary standing. His party lost its fragile majority while the far right secured a record number of seats. The president later acknowledged that the dissolution had brought \u201cmore instability than serenity\u201d and declared, \u201cI take full responsibility for that\u201d in his New Year address. Yet, for many, it fell short of a full apology.<\/p>\n

Critics within his own circle viewed the move as reckless. Former Prime Minister Michel Barnier was forced out less than 100 days into his tenure, and France entered the new year without an approved budget. Macron\u2019s advisors say he believed the government would collapse during budget negotiations that autumn, and it was better to \u201cprovoke\u201d his fate \u201crather than suffer it,\u201d
\nPolitico<\/a> reported citing a former minister who opposed the election.<\/p>\n

Among Macron\u2019s long-time confidants, such as chief of staff Alexis Kohler and ex-adviser Philippe Grangeon, the president is seen as a compulsive risk-taker. A former colleague described him as someone who leaves \u201cthe casino with his pockets nearly empty but convinced he\u2019ll beat the house on the next try.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bayrou under pressure<\/strong><\/p>\n

Macron\u2019s frustration appears to have grown since appointing Bayrou as prime minister. The centrist leader is seen by many in the Elys\u00e9e as cautious and indecisive, traits that sharply contrast with Macron\u2019s instinctive and confrontational approach. \u201cMacron is boiling over. It\u2019s driving him crazy,\u201d a close friend of the president said.<\/p>\n

Bayrou is reportedly under increasing pressure, with speculation that lawmakers could remove him during budget negotiations or over a resurfaced child abuse scandal from his time as education minister in the 1990s. If Bayrou were to fall, Macron could nominate a replacement, with Armed Forces Minister S\u00e9bastien Lecornu reportedly in contention, or call a new election.<\/p>\n

While no formal plans for a new dissolution have been confirmed, Macron\u2019s unpredictable style has left many in the French political class watching closely for signs of movement.<\/p>\n

The last power<\/strong><\/p>\n

Though Macron rejected the idea of calling another election during a visit to Madagascar in April, allies have advised him not to rule it out completely. Some believe maintaining the possibility gives the president leverage over rival parties in the Assembly. Fran\u00e7ois Hollande, Macron\u2019s former political mentor and predecessor, reportedly believes the president is \u201cof course\u201d still thinking about another vote, calling it Macron\u2019s \u201clast power.\u201d<\/p>\n

Macron\u2019s instinct-led approach has proven costly before, but he remains undeterred. In a now-infamous meeting on election night last June, Macron brushed off the chances of a left-wing alliance forming, saying, \u201cGood luck to the left in uniting in three weeks.\u201d They did, and their hastily formed alliance ended up blocking the far right from taking over the premiership.<\/p>\n

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For now, no official decision has been made. But one year after a snap election threw French politics into turmoil, the possibility of another remains real. As one of Macron\u2019s friends put it, the president\u2019s agitation and instinct to act could once again take France to the polls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Though Macron rejected the idea of calling another election during a visit to Madagascar in April, allies have…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":245097,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[34,95219,2000,299,36,95216,95218,95217],"class_list":{"0":"post-245096","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-emmanuel-macron","9":"tag-emmanuel-macron-news","10":"tag-eu","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-france","13":"tag-france-elections","14":"tag-france-elections-news","15":"tag-france-snap-elections"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114811648442439054","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245096","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=245096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245096\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}