PARIS, April 27 — French President Emmanuel Macron paid a surprise visit to a Socialist-held working class suburb north of Paris today on his first official outing since his re-election, in an effort to woo left-wing voters ahead of June’s parliamentary vote.
Macron, a centrist, has long faced accusations of being too aloof and elitist, charges that discouraged some left-wing voters from backing him in Sunday’s runoff vote against far-right candidate Marine Le Pen. Melenchon, who came a strong third in the first round of the presidential vote after Macron and Le Pen, wants to rally a union of the left to dominate parliament and force Macron into an awkward “cohabitation”. Read full story
Officials from working class areas say voters are particularly angry over rising prices of food staples including bread, rice and Ukraine-produced sunflower oil.
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