Macron’s election gamble looks doomed
France’s main far right party appears poised to do well in the two-round parliamentary vote.
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Washington has begun to accept that Macron is headed for defeat.
“People recognized from the start that the decision to have early elections was a risky one, but what is becoming more clear in the weeks since is that Macron did not have his ducks in a row to give the best possible chance of success for his bold gambit,” said Jeff Rathke, a former U.S. diplomat.