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French President Emmanuel Macron set off a political earthquake after he announced on Sunday he was dissolving the National Assembly and calling early legislative elections. A risky move that could either make it or break it for the presidential camp. The shock announcement came shortly after the far-right National Rally (RN) inflicted a stinging defeat on Macron’s Renaissance party in European parliamentary elections. French voters will now have to return to the ballot boxes, this time to elect 577 MPs, on June 30 for the first round and July 7 for the second one. Why now?Macron argued on Sun…

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