The day after the French left had pulled off a sensational victory in the parliamentary elections one of their newly-elected MPs sent a tweet.
Faced with the seemingly unstoppable rise of the National Rally, Macron reverted to ‘moral arguments’
Aurélien Rousseau had triumphed in a constituency south of Paris, and he wanted to express his ‘gratitude’ to the media for their ‘indispensable’ work.
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