The political unrest in France will not affect preparations for the Summer Olympics, International Olympic Committee (IOC, IOC, CIO) President Thomas Bach said today after President Emmanuel Macron caused a shock in France by announcing new parliamentary elections.

Macron called the snap election after the far-right National Alarm won his own party in European elections held yesterday, Sunday.

Parliamentary elections will be held in two rounds on June 30 and July 7, with the second round less than three weeks away before the Olympics begin.

“France is used to holding elections, they will do it again, there will be a new government and everyone will support the Olympics,” Bach said at an event ahead of the Paris Olympics, adding that French political leaders were all in favor of conduct of the Games.

“I don’t have the slightest indication that this unity will break down now, just a few days before the Games start,” he added.

Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo said she “difficult to understand” why Macron chose to throw the country into political uncertainty so close to the Games and called the move “another coup” by the president.

The head of the Paris Olympics organizing committee, Tony Estanget, said his team was “more determined than ever” to make the Games a success. “There were about ten electoral contests after we put forward the candidacy for the Olympics and we learned how to work with public actors,” he added.

Meanwhile, the Kremlin said today it will closely monitor the upcoming snap election in France, called by President Emmanuel Macron, given what it described as the French leadership’s “openly hostile” stance toward Russia.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Russia was monitoring the results of the European elections, in which far-right and Eurosceptic parties made significant gains.