Moderate French Voters Angry at Macron Weigh Their Options
The president’s bid to weaken Marine Le Pen depends on voters rallying behind a single rival candidate. Trouble is, they may just stay at home.
Voters at a polling station during the first round of legislative elections, in Marseille on June 30.
Photographer: Jeremy Suyker/BloombergOn a rainy morning in Arras, a city that has resisted the Marine Le Pen wave sweeping across Northern France, Quentin Rouget said he can’t decide whether to take a final stand against her.
A left-leaning economics teacher, Rouget voted for centrist presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron without much thought in 2017. He backed him again reluctantly five years later. But he isn’t sure he can lend his support in Sunday’s legislative election by casting a ballot in this district for the president’s junior agriculture minister, Agnès Pannier-Runacher.