France’s Macron tacks right in bid for 2022 triumph

May 9, 2021   

(AFP) Will Emmanuel Macron, the political wunderkind who steamrolled France’s establishment parties to win power as a centrist insurgent in 2017, survive a re-election battle overshadowed by Covid-19 next year?

Or could the youngest French leader since Napoleon become just a one-term footnote in history, tripped up by his attempts to straddle France’s left-right divide?

Set to face far-right leader Marine Le Pen in a rematch of the 2017 election final according to polls, 43-year-old Macron already appears to be in campaign mode before formally announcing his re-election bid.

His party said last weekend that it would back the conservative Republicans candidate in southeast France in next month’s regional elections, sparking fears on the right of an attempt to poach their voters.

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