French President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday said he was seeking an alliance against political extremes in snap elections, adding that he aimed to keep the far right from succeeding him in 2027 when he steps down. Macron was speaking at a rare domestic news conference three days after the far right upended his presidency and spurred him to call risky early polls by recording more than double the score of his ruling party in European elections. A landmark realignment of French politics now appears to be in progress, with the leader of the main right-wing party backing an alliance with the far right, triggering warfare within his own group. With little chance of overtaking the far-right National Rally (RN) in the campaign for the two-round election on June 30 and July 7, Macron’s best chance appears to be to build a broad-based centrist coalition appealing to the moderate left and right. With a new poll showing Macron’s Renaissance alliance getting crushed from both sides of the political spectrum, FRANCE 24’s François Picard is joined by fellow journalists Jean-Emile Jammine, Solange Mougin and guest analyst Renaud Foucart, Economist and Senior Lecturer in the Department of Economics at Lancaster University Management School.
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