Macron Warns of Civil War Risk Ahead of Snap Polls

French President Emmanuel Macron has been warning about the potential risks posed by both the far-right National Rally (RN) and hard-left France Unbowed parties. He claims that their ideologies, which focus on issues such as crime and immigration, are based on "stigmatization or division" and could lead to civil war in France. Macron made these statements during a podcast interview, where he also criticized the RN party's manifesto for promoting divisive solutions. The president has been accused of calling snap legislative elections after his centrist party was beaten by the RN in recent polls, which suggested the far-right party would win 35-36% of the vote in the first round. A second round of voting is scheduled to take place on July 7 in constituencies where no candidate takes more than 50%.