Macron urges French to make ‘right choice’ in election gamble

His announcement of elections for a new National Assembly on 30 June, with a second round on 7 July, has sparked widespread alarm, even from within the ranks of his party.”By playing with fire, the head of state could end up by burning himself and dragging the entire country into the fire,” Le Monde wrote in an editorial.Despite the storm of criticism, Macron appeared unfazed Monday as he visited the site of a massacre by Nazi soldiers during World War II together with German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier.He was seen shaking hands with Karin Eideloth, a descendant of Adolf Heinrich,…