All right, Alexander, let's talk about the European Union Parliament elections and the big story coming out of those elections, which is French President Emmanuel Macron, dissolving the parliament and calling SNAP parliament elections for the end of June and the first week of July.

Elections right before the Paris Olympics.

Interesting timing.

Just a couple of weeks, to be quite honest, and you're going to have parliament elections.

And if you look at the results of the EU parliament

elections, looks like National Rally and Marie Le Pen are going to be well situated to come out

ahead in the French parliament elections. 32% from the EU parliament elections went to national rally.

Macron got hammered, 15%. And I always say that the EU parliament elections, if anything,

they are a referendum in that country. More than anything, they are a referendum in the given country that the elections are

taking place in. Anyway, your thoughts on Macron's announcement.

Well, indeed, I think this is a very dramatic announcement and a dramatic gamble.

But of course, it also serves to explain an awful lot about the really eccentric behaviour

that we've been seen from Macron over the last couple of months, because clearly he's been

sensing for some time that his position domestically is collapsing. And the EU Parliament elections have exposed this.

So he's gone for a tremendous gamble and he is hoping to repeat what Sanchez, the Spanish

socialist Prime Minister, was able to pull off some time, a couple of months back.

Now, Sanchez also called early elections, snap elections, which were unexpected.

He appeared to be behind in the polls.

He then ran on a program of defending the republic and democracy against the extreme right.

And Sanchez was able to pull it off.

And I think this is Macron.

He says to himself, I'm going to do the same.

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