This is John Batchelor, conversation with my colleague Conrad Black writing for the National

Post Distinguished Biographer.

Also a man who watches both elections underway in the European considerations. The election in France, McCrone calls a

snap election for June 30th and the elections in the United Kingdom. Rishizunak calls an election for July 4th.

In this observation about Macron and his thinking about the snap election and how it may give him an advantage over National

Rally Marine Le Pen's party in these next years. May. Conrad admires McCrone and here he explains. More of this tonight.

He doesn't have to pay much attention to the Premier anyway because the President of France

within reason could do what he wants and

and that's the way the goal set it up and and this will he thinks blunt the momentum of

lapen's party that they'll have to

uh... have the discipline of being in government and trying to govern

inevitably is their honeymoon will pass and he I think it's a tactic

of his to wear them down by political attrition before the next presidential

election so I wouldn't underestimate Macron's

cleverness and to say he's a very astute man and I think he's unbalanced up in a

bad president quite good in fact.