French snap election before Olympics extremely troubling Paris mayor

Anne Hidalgo says she was 'stunned? by President Macron's decision to hold a vote just ahead of the Games

The decision to hold a snap parliamentary election weeks before the start of the Paris Olympic Games is "extremely troubling," the city's mayor, Anne Hidalgo, said on Monday.

The announcement by French President Emmanuel Macron late on Sunday left her in shock, she told reporters during