I’m having a hard time wrapping my head around this
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It just means the current session of the National Assembly is ended early and new elections are going to happen earlier than scheduled, and all of the current assembly members are, for lack of a better term, “fired” (although they can run for their current seats again in the upcoming election. Depending on what country you’re from, this may or may not be a thing. For example, it’s not something that happens in the U.S, but most European countries have something like this.
The name sounds a bit more dramatic than what it is. In France, the President has the ability to call an election for the National Assembly. To call an election for a new assembly, you have to dissolve the current one. That’s what Macron did, he essentially called an election.
It’s not like the USA where Congressmen serve exact terms that start and expire on specific days.
In the US most of the important political people serve fixed terms, ie 4 years.
France is a unique country famous for grapes, bread and silly clowns. They have a system called ‘laissez faire’ which basically means like doing whatever you want without people getting in your face about it. When the french president was a little boy, he was so laissez faire he decided he was going to grow a mustache and date his elementary school teacher when he was older. Recently, he did a very laissez faire thing and just sort of held his finger to the wind, and then declared that it was time to end the current national assembly.
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