Macron himself underscored the uncertainty of the moment, warning supporters last Sunday, when he pulled in over 27% of the vote, that “Nothing is decided.”
President Emmanuel Macron speaks, as Brigitte Klinkert, a junior minister for economic inclusion, stands by, on a campaign visit to Chatenois, near Strasbourg, in Alsace-Lorraine, France, on April 12.
Despite slashing unemployment from 10% to 7.5% and pumping up the economy, Macron has angered those who consider he has ignored the needs of non-city dwellers. Others are incensed that he’s fallen short on his climate change goals and that he embarked on a failed attempt at shuttle diplomacy with Putin. The invasion of Ukraine ranks only 14th among the top concerns of French voters. In the weeks leading up to the first round of voting, Macron barely campaigned. He held just one rally, in Paris.
The 2017 French presidential election likewise pitted the Macron, a former banker and something of a political question mark at the time, against Le Pen, scion of Jean-Marie Le Pen’s virulently anti-immigrant National Front. The hard-right nationalist party was so controversial that in 1976, when Marine Le Pen was 8 years old,, in an apparent assassination attempt on her father.
Since the last election, even Le Pen’s detractors have noted that she’s polished her image and further softened her rhetoric. She now says that she wants France to stay with the euro, is opposed to splitting with the EU and has downplayed her relationship with Putin. Marine Le Pen has a few words for a cow at the 58th International Agriculture Fair at the Porte de Versailles exhibition center in Paris on March 2.
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