Emmanuel Macron: win for far left or far right ‘will spark civil war’

French president's comments made on podcast as RN releases manifesto pledging to limit immigration'

French President Emmanuel Macron has warned that the far right National Rally (RN) party and the leftwing New Popular Front coalition - both of which are frontrunners in the parliamentary election - risked bringing civil war" to France.

Macron told the podcast Generation Do It Yourself that the manifesto of the RN party - which election pollsters put in first place - and their solutions to deal with fears over crime and immigration were based upon stigmatisation or division".