Last June, a few days after the dissolution of the National Assembly, The World attributed to Emmanuel Macron a phrase spoken during a private conversation with a businessman at the Elysée Palace. As the newspaper reveals, the French president said that with the early elections, “he had thrown a grenade without a ring at the feet of the political parties; now let's see how they get out of it.”
In the days that followed, Éric Ciotti, president of the Republicans (right), confirmed Macron's predictions by announcing an electoral alliance with the far-right Marine Le Pen, against the opinion of the majority of his colleagues, who They voted to expel himOn the left, however, the four main parties (Insoumise France, Socialist Party, Europe Ecologie-Les Verts and Communist Party) agreed in a few days that they would attend the legislative elections together in New Popular Front (NFP).