Candidate’s far-right views matter less than her promises to help lower income people, as Macron struggles with elite image
. “All across the north, people can’t stand it any more, we’re barely surviving – there has to be change,” Fievez said. “Macron is the president of the rich.”
“We have a society that is fractured between the bottom of the pyramid and the top,” said Macron’s ally, François Bayrou. But the picture is more complex than a simple divide between lower-income workers choosing Le Pen and managers and pensioners choosing Macron. Pollsters warn of growing disillusionment and dissatisfaction with the political class. More than 12 million voters did not turn up to the ballot box in the first round.
Pascal Patté has suffered from his falling purchasing power and will vote for Marine Le Pen in the runoff, as he did in the first round and usually does.In the Picardy village of Beaulieu-les-Fontaines, Pascal Patté, 58, was another of Macron’s everyday heroes who had kept the country fed during the pandemic. He was an increasingly rare phenomenon in France: a village baker. People in lesser populated areas of France now have to travel an average of 2.
Théo Savard benefited from Macron’s increased youth training schemes, but he now favours Le Pen because of her zero income tax promise.Théo Savard, aged 20, symbolised what Macron considers one of his key successes in five years – increasing youth training schemes. An apprentice panel-beater, Savard worked in the bodyshop of a local garage. But he too wanted change.
Capucine, 23, who had a chemical engineering degree and a future in scientific research, did not vote in the first round. She was radically opposed to the far right, but also angry at Macron’s personal opposition to extending theand felt he showed “disdain” to the working class. “I think I’ll use a proxy vote because I can’t bring myself personally to touch a ballot paper with Macron’s name on it,” she said.
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