Macron warns voters against far right and hard left ahead of crucial elections

French President Emmanuel Macron has warned voters against choosing the far right or the hard left, ahead of Sunday’s first round of crucial parliamentary elections (Thibault Camus/AP)

French President Emmanuel Macron is warning voters against choosing the far right or the hard left, asserting that their divisive policies increase the risk of political “conflict and civil war”, ahead of Sunday’s first round of crucial parliamentary elections.

Mr Macron said in an interview with podcast Generation Do It Yourself that both the far-right National Rally and hard-left France Unbowed bring bad responses to “real problems” because they “respond in some way by increasing conflict and civil war”.