PARIS — On June 30 , French voters will head to the polls in a national election that wasn’t even on the horizon a month ago. But since France’s president decided to use democratic institutions as a tool to tell the little people to shove it, French patriots now have a golden opportunity to do the same to him and his globalist pals. “I’ve been preparing this for weeks, and I’m delighted.
I’ve thrown my grenade at their legs. Now, we’ll see how they deal with it..
.,” France’s Le Monde reports that French President Emmanuel Macron said in the wake of the European parliamentary vote that saw the French overwhelmingly back Marine Le Pen’s anti-establishment so-called “far-right” National Rally party with a score that more than doubled that of Macron’s. Having lost perceived democratic legitimacy, Macron unilaterally dissolved parliament, betting that French voters would then reject their own voting choice at the European level, thereby re-establishing the democratic legitimacy of his agenda and party at the national level.
But with only a few days to go, it looks like there must have been one heck of a strong headwind when Macron tossed that grenade. National Rally also now enjoys considerable support from establishment Republican Party voters from the political family of former French Presidents Nicolas Sarkozy and Jacques Chirac, with 36 percent of voting intentions, according to a June 22 Ipsos poll . Isn’t it amazing how allies magically appear t.