“For the first time since the Vichy regime, the extreme right could prevail again in France,” #Olivier #Faure, the leader of the Socialist Party, said while addressing the crowd in Paris.
That prospect brought out of retirement former President #François #Hollande, who announced on Saturday that he would run for legislative elections to help ensure that the far right would not take power.
“The situation is very grave,” he said, in his hometown, Corrèze.
“For those who feel lost, we need to convince them:
The coming together of the French is indispensable.”
Mr. Macron shocked the country last week by announcing that he was dissolving the lower house of Parliament and calling for new parliamentary elections after his centrist Renaissance party was clobbered by the far-right National Rally party in elections for the European Parliament.