France heading for deadlock

Macron’s decision to call a snap election looks to be backfiring badly. The latest polls are:

• National Rally (right) 36%
• New Popular Front (left) 29%
• Together (centre) 21%
• Republicans (centre-right) 7%

So his faction looks to get barely 20% and the hard right and hard left will get over 60% between them meaning the new Government will need one of them in it.

The next Prime Minister could be Jordan Bardella, who is only 28 years old.

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