Macron’s reckless gamble shows how little he cares about the fate of French people like me

 

 "We can only assume that Macron was attempting to reshuffle the deck in order to outmanoeuvre the far right, even though they were the ones demanding an election. Or perhaps his strategy is to let RN assume political responsibility and hope that, exposed to the reality of government, it will disappoint public opinion and be reduced to irrelevance at the next presidential election in 2027. He could then ensure that his successor in the Elysée is not from the far right. Either way, Macron seems delusionally proud of his chess move. Le Monde reported a private conversation the day after the European elections in which the president boasted his “delight” at having “thrown an unpinned grenade” at the far right, and said that he had planned this tactic “weeks ago”. The Elysée has denied the story.

But is this really the moment for such a gamble, just to prioritise the Macron legacy? Three weeks is a recklessly short election campaign, given what is at stake and the chaos that could lie ahead. And whatever his intentions are, choosing to treat the country like a roulette table shows how little Macron cares about the fate of millions of French people. How does he think those most likely to be the chief scapegoats of a government led by a party co-founded by Nazi apologists – including Le Pen’s father, Jean-Marie Le Pen, who has been convicted three times for dismissing the Holocaust as a “detail” of history – are feeling now?"~~

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Macron’s reckless gamble shows how little he cares about the fate of French people like me | Rokhaya Diallo | The Guardian