“Macron’s choice is to appear as the one reasonable option. How long are people willing to be reasonable in the world we live in remains to be seen”< /h2>
French people are voting this Sunday in the first round of the presidential election, with far-right candidate Marine Le Pen polling higher than ever in her challenge to the incumbent Emmanuel Macron. Dion Fanning asks Paris-based journalist Stephen Carroll and The Currency's French-born senior correspondent Thomas Hubert what is happening in a campaign overshadowed by the war in Ukraine and its consequences on the personal finances of French voters.