Emmanuel Macron's announcement that he intended to dissolve parliament and call for a snap election came as a shock on Sunday night. The French president, who was been in power since 2017, said it was time for the country to have its say after his centrist Renaissance party suffered a calamitous result in the EU election. What's happened? Mr Macron has called for a snap election to take place from later this month after being trounced in European Parliament elections by Marine Le Pen's far-right National Rally. X X , which may be using cookies and other technologies. To show...