France’s last parliamentary elections in 2017 gave flesh to President Emmanuel Macron’s pledge of political renewal, staffing the country’s National Assembly with newcomers plucked from the public. As their mandate comes up for renewal on June 12-19, has the promised change materialised?
It’s been five years since Macron pulled a party out of his hat and triumphed in parliamentary elections, sending an army of political unknowns to the National Assembly, France’s lower house of parliament.
