🗣️ 'It is a miserable choice that the French are facing on April 24, but a momentous one – and Macron could lose his bet, because for all his posturing, his second round bid looks fatally unserious' | Writes Anne-Elisabeth Moutet
The result of the first round of French elections looked to Emmanuel Macron’s supporters like a vindication of his strategy. The French president, who stayed aloof from any actual campaigning in the weeks leading up to the vote, managed to come in four points ahead of Marine Le Pen. But now that he has properly hit the campaign trail, alarm bells are ringing – because he is terrible at it.
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