france will go to the polls in eight days when french president emanuel macron came to power he had economic reform on his mind little did he know that he would foot face a number of protests during his tenure yellow vest covered 19 and now the russian invasion of ukraine he has proposed later retirement a proposal that many people in france do not approve of five years ago macron emerged as the youngest french leader since napoleon what are his chances this time around let's take a look the upcoming french presidential election is emmanuel macron's to lose if the opinion polls are to be believed macron is set to become the first leader for two decades to win a second term in office in repair april with that comes the task of steering france through the fallout from kovid 19 global inflationary pressures and russia's invasion of ukraine he spent more than most european peers keeping france afloat during the pandemic voters have approved of his recent diplomatic efforts including flying to moscow to meet president putin and both crises may have helped his re-election campaign according to political analyst bruno cortes emmanuel macron has benefited really from the rally around the flag effect because of the ukraine war and also because the way that emmanuel macron did manage actually the covet pandemic particularly at the end with whatever it cost and emmanuel macron has clearly benefited from that his position of the incarnate the executive which is managing the crisis five years ago macron became france's youngest leader since napoleon the political outsider who would break the old left-right stranglehold he set about cutting taxes for big businesses and the wealthy loosening labor laws and marketing france inc as a startup nation but his plans for pension reforms in particular proved highly unpopular the long-running yellow vest demonstrations began as a protest against high fuel prices but they eventually focused in on makon as aloof elitist and death to the grievances of ordinary people for french voters like lejeune that reputation persists he's directed france like he does a business and it's true this is how it's done but you also need to take the human factor into account so you need to be social too you're not just managing goods but managing people macron is seeking to extend his mandate precisely to press on with his pro-business reforms he still wants to increase the retirement age cut taxes and further loosen labor market rules potentially risking further social unrest but it doesn't seem to have dented his pull lead he is comfortably ahead of his nearest rivals far right challenger marine le pen lost to macon in the second round of voting in 2017. she's likely to do the same again this time around that's despite successfully softening the euro-skeptic stance of her national rally party and broadening her own appeal among mainstream voters she's also had to deal with the threat of far-right nationalist eric zamore whose campaign tailed off after an initial search jean-luc melenchon is the only left-wing candidate to pull among the top five challengers his friend's unbowed party has been boosted by how poorly other left-wing candidates are faring but it's unlikely to be enough right of center is valerie pacques france's self-styled iron lady part margaret thatcher and part angela merkel she is a moderate with a conservative party that has lurched rightwards she would be france's first woman president but she'd have to pull off a major upset to get there emmanuel macron may be a matter of weeks away from comfortably securing a second five-year term but beyond the immediate crises communications expert philip moreau chavrollet sees a bigger challenge ahead for the president his own domestic reform agenda even though the economy is good and is what he achieved during the five years economically speaking is good for french people and they have maybe not all of them but most of the population i've seen their revenues increase and they pay less taxes but you know people have to feel it and after four years of deep deep social sanitary or diplomatic crisis it's difficult to feel good even though the situation is better we on is now available in your country download the app now and get all the news on the move
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