RUNNING SCARED: France’s Macron Warns of ‘Civil War’ If He Loses Next Month’s Parliamentary Elections
French President Emmanuel Macron has warned that France is headed towards a “civil war” if his party does not win the upcoming parliamentary elections.
After a bruising defeat by Marine Le Pen’s conservative National Rally party during the European elections earlier this month, Macron called snap parliamentary elections.
Both National Rally and the far-left France Unbowed are riding high in the polls and could hold a parliamentary majority if the election goes their way.
Fearing the loss of his majority, Macron is warning that the country may soon be headed towards violence.
Politico reports:
The far right’s answer to insecurity “reduces people to their religion or their origin” and therefore “pushes people towards civil war,” [Macron] said in an interview Monday with the podcast “Generation Do It Yourself.”
The far left,
