I guess there’s something I’m missing. If LePen’s National Rally is set to trounce Macron, why would he call a snap election? I don’t get it. Does he want defeat?
He's trying to call France's bluff. He's basically saying, "OK! You want Le Pen? Let's do it right now in a real election!"
Seems he did something like this and then at the 11th hour, French voters buckled.
“I guess there’s something I’m missing. If LePen’s National Rally is set to trounce Macron, why would he call a snap election? I don’t get it. Does he want defeat?”
Oh no! No, indeed.! Macron wants an snap election to “fix” things. Let the people have their say. He will win and then can say “the voters have spoken’. A bit like the 2020 election when the media let us know we had voted for a return to “normalcy”.
With all the European countries having parliamentary governments, the Euro vote is like a confidence vote on their own leaders. Thus Macron has been given a no confidence vote by the people.
Usually it takes Parliament to vote to have a confidence vote for the leader, but when you see the people enmass doing it, Macron has to go this route to try and head off one from the Parliament.
This is how pissed voters in the. West are, and when we can, we will not be. ignored.
Even they. can steal the. Presidential. election, watch the Democrats across every state take it in the *^s come November.