Ex-French Prime Minister Édouard Philippe, a longtime ally of President Emmanuel Macron, has called for his former boss to hold early presidential elections to end the political crisis facing the country.
Philippe, who served as President Macron’s prime minister from 2017 to 2020 before returning to his post as Mayor of Le Havre, has become the first major figure from within the Macronist neo-liberal establishment to suggest that the president should not serve out the remaining two years of his second and final term in office, a notion Macron has hitherto consistently shot down.
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