 Christopher Weisberg there for President Macron's party. Well, when President Macron announced this snap election on the evening of the European election results, he was criticised by many, including in his own party, for taking an unnecessary gamble. I've been speaking to Gilles Paris, who is on the editorial board of Le Monde newspaper, and I asked him, has that political gamble comprehensively backfired or can it still work?