French President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday affirmed that he would not step down if his party suffers in the recently-called snap elections for France's parliament. The chance of that happening "never existed," Macron told journalists, calling the suggestion "absurd" and saying that he wanted to nip the idea in the bud, according to French reporting translated by CNBC. Macron on Sunday dissolved the French parliament and called for snap legislative elections later in June, following a stinging defeat in the weekend's European Parliament elections which