French election: Emmanuel Macron’s rally like a royal visit, while supporters of far-right leader chant ‘president Marine’ – By Adam Parsons and Dominic Waghorn (Sky News) / April 21, 2022
The sitting president is as much as 10 points ahead in the polls, but his rival tells Sky News: “I think I’ve got every chance of winning.”
Sky News correspondents Adam Parsons and Dominic Waghorn are on the French presidential campaign trail with Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen.
Here, they sum up the feeling on the ground ahead of a run-off vote on Sunday.
By Adam Parsons, Europe correspondent, in Saint-Denis
If Emmanuel Macron is nervous then he’s hiding it well.
When he arrived here, in Saint-Denis, just north of Paris, he beamed and waved to the crowd, and then spent hours talking to people.
