Despite weeks of non-stop campaigning around France, Emmanuel Macron's party seems to be stalling
in the small auditorium was polite, rather than enthusiastic. A friendly senator in the front row tried to stir electoral fervour, clapping her hands rhythmically over her head as the star guest walked in. But Nathalie Loiseau, Emmanuel Macron’s softly spoken leading candidate at elections to the European Parliament, is a technocrat who says that she is “not made for big glittery shows”. And indeed, on stage in a town north-west of Paris, she is not.
For her part, Ms Le Pen has sought to turn the election into a referendum on the unpopular Mr Macron. Six months after the start of the protests, the president’s ratings have recovered to where they were before the movement began. But, at around 30%, they remain low. Mr Macron continues to crystallise anger in a fractured country. “Vote against Macron”, instructs one of Ms Le Pen’s blue-and-yellow campaign flyers.
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