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Added on the 11/04/2022 00:25:12 - Copyright : France 24 EN
President Emmanuel Macron will not be able to count on French voters' traditional anti-far right front in the final runoff and will need to step up his campaign if he is to defeat Marine Le Pen, who has successfully softened her image.
It's the losers who will determine the winner in France's presidential race. There are various shades of endorsement between those saying they're ready to work with Macron, those who insist it's simply an anti-Le Pen vote... and those who see no issue in rejecting both. What are the pros and cons of abstaining? Could Macron still lose? The underreported story of the first round may be just how deep the far-right has managed to establish roots and consolidate them.
It's the losers who will determine the winner in France's presidential race. There are various shades of endorsement between those saying they're ready to work with Macron, those who insist it's simply an anti-Le Pen vote... and those who see no issue in rejecting both. What are the pros and cons of abstaining? Could Macron still lose? The underreported story of the first round may be just how deep the far-right has managed to establish roots and consolidate them.
On April 24, Marine Le Pen will seek to cause the greatest upset in modern French political history by defeating Emmanuel Macron in a run-off in presidential elections. The incumbent is still the favorite but by a narrower margin than in their last duel in 2017. Our campaign commentator Angela Diffley explains the candidates' latest clash over Le Pen's ban women from wearing the Islamic headscarf in public.
Macron, the incumbent president with strong pro-European views, and Le Pen, an anti-immigration nationalist, couldn’t have more radically opposed visions of the EU and foreign policy.
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