President Emmanuel Macron dissolved the lower house of France's parliament in a surprise announcement sending voters back to the polls in the coming weeks to choose lawmakers, after his party was handed a humbling defeat by the far-right in the European elections Sunday.
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00:00So he tries to take his destiny in the eyes of history in his hands and for that
00:17makes a huge bet. I'm going to dissolve the National Assembly, the National Front
00:24will come to power and the French will realize how incompetent, how ideological,
00:33how dangerous they are. I think that maybe is strategy. The French are not
00:41voting for their representative in the European Parliament or even for their
00:47representative in the National Assembly. They are voting to say no to Macron and
00:54there might very well be a majority, relative majority, of hard right at the
01:06National Assembly and a strong extreme left constituency. The risk he's taking
01:16are huge. It's less what he did than the perception of what he is, i.e. an arrogant,
01:29narcissistic person. He's the incarnation of the distant elite in the eyes of many Frenchmen.