Right-wing populists prepare for surge in Euro elections
Mr Macron has built up the contest as a struggle of good against evil. But having bested Mrs Le Pen in the 2017 French presidential elections, Mr Macron’s LREM is trailing her party this time round. “If he is humiliated, he will be weakened at home, and he will weaken his authority in Europe,” says Charles Grant, the director of the London-based Centre for European Reform (CER).