France’s far-right National Rally (RN) hit back on Thursday at charges from opponents that its spending plans would crash the economy, while President Emmanuel Macron’s centrist alliance said it was the only bulwark against financial mismanagement. The nationalist, anti-immigrant RN is leading in the polls ahead of a snap parliamentary election on June 30 and July 7, with a newly formed alliance of left-wing and environmentalist parties in second place and Macron’s camp trailing behind. Macron’s shock decision to call the election after his party was trounced by the RN in European elections threw French politics into turmoil and caused the euro and French stocks to tumble and France’s borrowing costs to rise. As French political camps draw election battle lines on economy, FRANCE 24’s Tom Burges Watson is joined by Anna McKeever, Political Scientist, Lecturer in Political Science at the University of the West of Scotland and author of ‘Immigration Policy and Right-Wing Populism in Western Europe’.
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