Elections in France: “A meeting with destiny”

QWhen EmmaÂnuel Macron “turned the tables inside out†, he had a plan: to provoke, according to him, a “startle†and an “awakening†of the French people. In the President’s view, this “startle†would have given him the necessary impetus to regain a parliamentary majority. The plan backfired: the party with the presidential majority, Renascimento (liberal), remains in third place in voting intentions, four days before the first round.