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Politico (7 July 2025)

Pauline de Saint Remy

Despite a public denial of another election, his government is in such trouble that the French president seems tempted by another high-stakes gamble.

It’s exactly a year since France’s snap elections that convulsed European politics by almost bringing the far right to power — which means President Emmanuel Macron now has the constitutional power to go for it again.

With his centrist government, led by Prime Minister François Bayrou, hanging on by its fingernails, does he fancy another throw of the dice?

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