Polls suggest the runoff would bring the far right closer to the French presidency than ever before.
French President Emmanuel Macron meets residents during a campaign stop in Denain, France, on April 11.
Christiane Delbecq, 59, said afterward that she had randomly chosen a first-round candidate — by Monday morning, she wasn’t even sure which one she’d voted for. But Macron’s visit to Denain appeared to have won her over. A few hundred meters away from where Macron was shaking hands, 54-year-old Pascale Henry went about his day in front of the post office — and said he still plans to vote for Le Pen in two weeks. “People here are in need of help,” he said. “Macron says a lot but he doesn’t do a lot.”
Among those throwing their weight behind the incumbent were leftist candidates Fabien Roussel, Anne Hidalgo, Yannick Jadot and — most critically — Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the far-left politician who came in third on Sunday, narrowly behind Le Pen.“You must not give a single vote to Madame Le Pen,” Mélenchon said Sunday, repeating the sentence several times.
He faces a particularly steep climb with Mélenchon voters, who include those on the left who have been disappointed with the president’s rightward shift on national security and his record on climate policies. And polls suggest about a third of Mélenchon’s supporters may vote for Le Pen in the second round.
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