Before President Emmanuel Macron of France went on national television to announce his call for snap parliamentary elections, he privately alerted President Joe Biden, who was wrapping up a five-day trip to France for the D-Day anniversary, according to two people familiar with the private conversation.
At the moment, Biden and his team aren’t in much of a position to question political gambits. The U.S. president struggled during a Thursday debate against former President Donald Trump — a matchup Biden had pushed to be held earlier in the 2024 campaign in hopes of shaking up the race.
The Biden team has been consoling itself by pointing out that Macron still has three years left on his term and that the French president wields significant power over foreign policy, which could keep some stability in U.S.-French relations. But National Rally leader Marine Le Pen indicated this week thatNational Rally leader Marine Le Pen indicated her party may seek budgetary and other means to tie President Emmanuel Macron’s hands on the global front.
The impact of the French vote could be huge, if not necessarily immediately so, former U.S. officials and other observers said. The parliamentary vote takes place in two rounds, on June 30 and July 7. So far, polls suggest the National Rally could secure the largest parliamentary group, which would have been an unthinkable result more than a decade ago given the party’s outcast status in French politics.
“A weak government in France could mean a political paralysis of sorts at the heart of the European Union.”
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