text:  President Emmanuel Macron's gamble to call a snap election has sidelined his own centrist party and set up a battle between an alliance of left parties, the new Popular Front, and the far-right National Rally, or Rassemblement. If RN win, then the president will have to work with the far-right government, but tactical voting could lead to no party having an overall majority. In that case, France will be doomed to a period of political and economic uncertainty.