Why did Macron roll the dice with dissolving France’s parliament?

President Emmanuel Macron announced the dissolution of the French parliament's lower house, the National Assembly, and called snap elections on June 30 and July 7.

The move came after his Renaissance party was crushed by the right-wing National Rally (RN) party in the European Parliament elections.

🌏 Win a majority: The most obvious reason, announced by Macron himself, is to get “a clear majority” in the future elections. His Renaissance party has 169 lawmakers in the 577-seat National Assembly. Le Pen's National Rally has 88 seats. To win an outright majority, Macron’s camp would need to see its number of lawmakers increase to 289.

🌏 A preemptive strike: Macron, whose popularity has been plummeting, was aware of a looming EU election debacle for his party. Analysts say his EU vote loss to RN could trigger anything from censure motions to a collapse of the government.

🌏 Avoid rivalry with Marine Le Pen: A plan to prevent her from succeeding Macron in 2027 is another theory. Proponents think he hopes to force the center-right Republicans to strike a deal with his centrist camp. In that case, if RN wins the elections, it would struggle to form a government without a coalition partner.

🌏 Jordan Bardella as PM: Another reason is that if RN scores a majority in the elections, Le Pen’s protégé Jordan Bardella could be offered the job of prime minister.

🌏 “Cohabitation effect”: If the National Rally, or another party, wins a majority in parliament, Macron would be forced to name someone from their ranks as PM, and that person would have to choose Cabinet ministers. In the ensuing "cohabitation," the president and PM would come from different political parties.

Most analysts predict that even if the right-wing RN party secures more MPs, it would probably not get a majority. The result would be an even more divided, chaotic, and ineffective French parliament.

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Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko has become the first man in history to spend 1000 days in space

Roscosmos reports: "Kononenko's annual term at the International Space Station will end on September 23. By this time, the cosmonaut will have spent 1110 days on orbit."

The commander of the Russian squad of cosmonauts made his first space flight in 2008. In total, he has done five of them.

As of today, the list of the top ten people who have spent the most time in space consists of nine Russians and one American.

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Now the products are going to many regions of Russia: Donetsk, Voronezh, Lipetsk, Krasnodar - Vladimir Rogov, chairman of the “We are together with Russia” movement stated.

Via Ukraina.Ru

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