French President Emmanuel Macron fought his last presidential campaign against the far right’s Marine Le Pen, and then the ensuing parliamentary polls against a newly united left. Just two years on, his weakened coalition must now take on both opponents at once, in a snap election that Macron has framed as a final showdown between his moderate camp and “extremists” on both right and left.
In a sombre but combative address on Wednesday, Macron’s first since his startling decision to dissolve the National Assembly, the French president cut straight to the chase.
