On the face of it, there is little logic in calling an election from a position of great weakness. But that is what President Emmanuel Macron has done by calling a snap parliamentary election in France on the back of a humiliation by the far right.
Instead, Mr. Macron, who became president at 39 in 2017 by being a risk-taker, chose to gamble that France, having voted one way on Sunday, will vote another in a few weeks.
Shock coursed through France on Monday. The stock market plunged... Anne Hidalgo, the mayor of Paris... said she was stunned by an unsettling decision. A thunderbolt, thundered Le Parisien, a daily newspaper, across its front page.
Raphael Glucksmann, who guided the revived center-left socialists to third place among French parties in the European vote, accused Mr. Macron of a dangerous game.
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