Far-right leader Marine Le Pen, who has already announced a third bid for the presidency in 2022, is also hoping to profit from Macron's woes.
Macron argued Algeria needed"a transition in a reasonable timeframe" from Bouteflika's 20-year rule. AFP/File/Christophe SIMON
Polls showing Macron’s four-year-old Republic on the Move party struggling in the March 15 vote, to be followed by a second round on March 22, which come amid a furore over the government’s decision to force through unpopular pension reforms by decree. Macron, who is set to seek a second mandate in 2022 polls, has attempted to downplay the significance of the vote for more than 500,000 councillors and nearly 35,000 mayors.
The signs for the party are inauspicious, with its candidates struggling in cities such as Paris and Lyon where it cleaned up in the parliamentary elections held after Macron came to power in 2017. “For many French people the ruling party’s ‘neither of the left nor the right’ has not lived up to its promises,” he said.
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