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French President Emmanuel Macron says he will ‘act until May 2027’, the end of his second term, regardless of who wins the snap parliamentary elections he called. He made this known in an announcement on Sunday.
In an open letter published in the French media, Macron said “The incoming government, which will necessarily reflect your vote, will I hope resemble the various republicans who will have shown the courage to oppose the extremes.”
Polls suggest that the far-right National Rally will head the snap vote whose first round is set for June 30. The Party’s figurehead, Marine Le Pen, has said Macron’s resignation could be the only solution to avoid a hung parliament for the remaining three years of his term.
Earlier this month, the Macron in a surprising move, dissolved the parliament after the far right conquered his centrist party in EU Parliament elections.
“You can trust me to act until May 2027 as your president, protector at every moment of our republic, our values, respectful of pluralism and your choices, at your service and that of the nation,” Macron said in the letter.
He asserted that the coming vote, with a second round on July 7, was “neither a presidential election, nor a vote of confidence in the president of the republic” but a response to “a single question: who should govern France?”
Macron accepted that his decision to call the snap polls has generated for some voters anger that has turned against him. “The goal cannot be to just continue as things were. I have heard that you want change,” he added, noting in particular his administration’s “much stronger and firmer responses” on “insecurity and impunity.”
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