Majority of French want new elections if government falls, polls show

Most French people want new national elections, opinion polls showed on Wednesday, after opposition parties said they would bring down the minority government in a confidence vote next month, throwing the euro zone’s second economy back into crisis.

The polling points to deepening dissatisfaction with politics, and a risk of lasting uncertainty, in a country that has had only minority cabinets and fragmented parliaments since President Emmanuel Macron was re-elected