Eyeing new term, Macron walks tightrope on vaccinations

has drawn praise from supporters, but his combative COVID-19 strategy could backfire in a French presidential election that is far from a foregone conclusion.

The pugnacious phrase was the latest example of a"transgressive style" that has punctuated his presidency, Giuliano da Empoli, a political scientist who teaches at Sciences Po Paris. "This crisis is like a pressure cooker - as long as it's tightly closed, everything's fine, but all of a sudden if you open it a bit, the thing could explode," Leclerc said.

"If it's Pecresse he's going to have a much harder time attracting a wider electorate, because he'll have to be much more courteous and consensual," said Jean Viard, a veteran sociologist and former municipal councillor in Marseille.

Just 24 per cent of supporters of the firebrand Jean-Luc Melenchon, who currently scores highest on the left, said they would back Macron this time around, while only two-thirds of Socialist or Greens voters said they would.

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