Good morning. It is going to be a busy summer in France. Emmanuel Macron’s shock decision to dissolve parliament and hold snap elections means the country will go to the polls on 30 June and again on 7 July – just three weeks before the opening ceremony of the 2024 Olympic Games.
The French president called the parliamentary elections after Marine Le Pen’s National Rally (RN) won 31.4% of the vote in the European parliamentary elections – more than double the 14.6% for the French president’s centrist alliance.
