{"id":44789,"date":"2025-04-23T20:49:13","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T20:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/44789\/"},"modified":"2025-04-23T20:49:13","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T20:49:13","slug":"macrons-office-denies-reports-of-another-snap-election-in-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/44789\/","title":{"rendered":"Macron&#8217;s office denies reports of another snap election in France"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-ad__placeholder__logo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/logo-euronews-grey-6-180x22.svg.svg+xml\" width=\"180\" height=\"22\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>The office of French President Emmanuel Macron has denied reports that he is considering the possibility of calling snap elections later this year.<\/p>\n<p>In a post on X on Wednesday afternoon, the \u00c9lys\u00e9e Palace denied the suggestion \u2014 first reported by Bloomberg on Tuesday \u2014 that a vote could be held as soon as the autumn. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/icon-cross-10x10-grey-6.svg.svg+xml\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\" alt=\"Close advertising\" fetchpriority=\"high\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Presidency of the Republic denies this, as it already did prior to the publication of the article,&#8221; the official Elys\u00e9e account wrote on X in reference to the Bloomberg story.<\/p>\n<p>However, the message did not directly address Bloomberg\u2019s claim that Macron and his inner circle had recently discussed the possibility of an early vote. <\/p>\n<p>The presidential office\u2019s denial comes as Macron&#8217;s popularity at home has surged in recent weeks. Polls show that his popularity has nearly rebounded to the levels of support he enjoyed before he called a disastrous snap election last year. <\/p>\n<p>In last July\u2019s early vote, Macron, who lost his outright majority in 2022, failed in his gamble to stop the momentum of the far-right. <\/p>\n<p>The left-wing New Popular Front alliance won 182 of the National Assembly\u2019s 577 seats, beating Macron\u2019s centrist Ensemble (Together) coalition, which secured 168. The far-right National Rally came third with 143 seats.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, the country\u2019s divided parliament has been beset by political turmoil, with Fran\u00e7ois Bayrou becoming France\u2019s fourth prime minister of 2024 when he took office in December.<\/p>\n<p>Macron, whose final term ends in 2027, has previously said he would avoid another snap ballot before leaving office. <\/p>\n<p>Last month, Macron&#8217;s rival Marine Le Pen and 24 of her far-right National Rally colleagues were found guilty of embezzling EU funds to pay party staff. <\/p>\n<p>As a result, Le Pen was immediately banned from seeking political office for five years. However, a French court has said it is likely to rule on her appeal by mid-2026, paving the way for her presidential candidacy if she is cleared. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ADVERTISEMENT The office of French President Emmanuel Macron has denied reports that he is considering the possibility of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44790,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[24727,34,2000,299,36],"class_list":{"0":"post-44789","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-early-election","9":"tag-emmanuel-macron","10":"tag-eu","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-france"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114389251786025299","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44789","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=44789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44789\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}