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WORLD NEWS Tuesday 13 June 2017
May seeks to rally party lawmakers behind her leadership

at a closed-door session 10 Democratic Unionist Par-
that she admitted she was ty lawmakers to assure pas-
the one who “got us into sage of May’s program.
this mess” and vowed that With a deal still to be con-
she would be the one who firmed, there was specula-
will “get us out of it.” tion that the announce-
The meeting with the rank- ment of the government’s
and-file, some of whom agenda, known as the
have called for May to step Queen’s Speech, could
aside sooner rather than be delayed by from the
later, was brought forward planned date next Mon-
a day. day.
May has taken the blame Delay would represent
for the Conservatives’ a highly unusual circum-
relatively poor showing in stance in a country where
last Thursday’s election, in the monarch’s schedule
which the party surprisingly is determined months in
lost its majority. advance.David Davis, the
With opinion polls show- cabinet member in charge
ing the Conservatives with of Brexit, said talks with
a commanding lead over the EU may not start on
British Prime Minister Theresa May sits with Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson as she holds the first the opposition Labour Monday as planned be-
Cabinet meeting of her new team inside 10 Downing Street, in London, Monday June 12, 2017. The Party, May had called an cause it would clash with
government Cabinet met for the first time Monday after a reshuffle by Theresa May following last early election in hopes of the scheduled date of the
week’s general election. increasing her majority in Queen’s Speech.
(Leon Neal/Pool via AP) Parliament and strengthen- However, he insisted they
By DANICA KIRKA disastrous election result. stands the frustration within ing her position in negotia- will begin next week.“It
Associated Press May, who is trying to wrap her own ranks following the tions over Britain’s exit from may not be on the Mon-
LONDON (AP) — British up an arrangement with election. the European Union. day because we also have
Prime Minister Theresa May Northern Ireland’s Demo- Britain’s Press Association, Instead, the election oblit- got the Queen’s Speech
sought Monday to rally cratic Unionist Party that quoting two unnamed erated her political author- that week and I will have to
lawmakers from her Con- would allow her to lead a sources from the meeting, ity and the party is trying to speak in that, and so on,”
servative Party behind her government with a major- said May told lawmakers secure the support of the he told Sky News.q
leadership amid doubts ity of votes in the House of
over her ability to remain in Commons, moved to dem-
power following last week’s onstrate that she under-
Opposition to Macron sweep

may end up in French streets

By ELAINE GANLEY ting it on course to take as
Associated Press many as 450 seats in the
PARIS (AP) — President Em- powerful 577-seat Nation-
manuel Macron’s barely al Assembly, an unprec-
year-old party is set to edented feat in France.
upend politics as France Opponents occupying the
knows it. But the rosy glow remaining seats would rep-
of a likely massive victory in resent a fragmented op-
next Sunday’s final round position, most without the
of French legislative elec- 15 seats needed to even
tions could be dimmed get speaking time, funding
without a robust opposition or other ways to weigh on
to debate controversial ini- policy.
tiatives like far-reaching la- Macron’s party decimated
bor law reforms that scare the Socialist Party that gov-
some, anger others and risk erned France for the past
sending those who want five years and got less than
none of it into the streets. 7.5 percent of Sunday’s
France’s new leader, at 39 vote. It flattened the far-
the youngest-ever and just right National Front whose
getting his feet wet in poli- leader, Marine Le Pen, was
tics, aimed from the start to vying with him for the presi-
remake the political land- dency last month. The party
scape, much of it populat- got just over 13 percent of
ed with old- school career the vote. Macron’s closest
politicians. Based on results rival, the mainstream con-
from Sunday’s first-round of servatives, took less than 16
voting, he is shattering it. percent.Such a parliament
His fledgling Republic on would be the most “mono-
the Move — fielding many chrome of the Fifth Repub-
candidates with no politi- lic,” said Frederic Dabi of
cal experience — won 28 the Ifop polling firm, speak-
percent of the vote, put- ing on CNews TV. q