Paris mayor slams Macron's election call before Olympics

PARIS, June 10 (AFP): Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo described the prospect of French parliamentary elections just weeks before the start of the Paris Olympics as "extremely unsettling", while the International Olympic Committee played down any direct impact on the event.
"Like a lot of people I was stunned to hear the president decide to do a dissolution (of parliament)," she said of Macron's surprise address to the nation after European parliament elections on Sunday.
Hidalgo said she was "worried" by the election results -- which saw the far-right National Rally party inflict a heavy defeat on Macron's centrist allies -- and said that Macron "could not continue as before".