France’s president will be hoping his habit of planting a peck on a pate on polling days will bring him luck in parliamentary elections
Emmanuel Macron’s apparent habit of kissing a bald supporter on the head on election day has sparked French media speculation about whether it is a superstitious gesture as his centrists face a tough challenge from the left.
As the French president went to vote in the first round of the parliamentary elections in the northern seaside resort of Le Touquet, where he has a home, he approached waiting supporters before grabbing the party activist Grégoire Campion and kissing him on his bald head. Campion, an activist for Macron’s centrist grouping and a long-time friend of Macron’s wife, traditionally turns out to see the president heading to the polling station on election day and is often photographed being enthusiastically kissed on the head.
In April, as Macron went to vote in the first round of the presidential election, which he later won against the far-right Marine Le Pen, he also kissed Campion’s head.Photograph: AFP/Getty Images Similarly during the parliamentary elections in June 2017, he walked over to waiting crowds outside his Le Touquet home, took Campion’s face in his hands and planted a kiss on his head. He repeated the gesture on voting day for the European elections in 2019.
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