The TCLS views with dismay the developments of the past few weeks in France, which is right on our doorstep in the United Kingdom. Yet the decision to call a general election was the right one in order to focus the minds of the French people over what is at stake if the Far Right from France dominate the European Parliament as well as the National Parliament.
We do not see that Emmanuel Macron has been wrong in any of his many political decisions and see him as an intellectual who should be supported by the French people. But democracy must prevail.