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“It’s a little bit strange,” one passerby, a man called Jean-Paul, told DW in downtown Paris. “It was very surprising that Macron decided to close the parliament. I don’t know what to think.”
Jean-Paul was not alone in his bemusement on Monday. President Emmanuel Macron caught the nation, including many in his own Renaissance party, off guard on Sunday when he dissolved the French Parliament and called snap legislative elections. They will take place in two rounds on June 30 and July…
