Over a quarter of a million people marched through France on Saturday and I was among their ranks as an observer. According to much of the media, the march was against Marine Le Pen and her National Rally party, which dominated last week’s European elections. But among the tens of thousands of protestors in Paris I saw and heard as much opposition to Emmanuel Macron.
The president’s name was on placards and in chants as the procession left the Place de la Republique for the Place de la Nation. So, too, was Jordan Bardella’s. The 28-year-old president of the National Rally – and the man who Le Pen says will be prime minister in the event her party wins the parliamentary election on 7 July – was the target of much hostility.
Macron’s standing has dropped sharply because of his social reforms and his support for the war in Ukraine
No one had much to say about Marine Le Pen.
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