Emmanuel Macron Begins His Re-Election Campaign

“President Macron denounced his detractors as demagogues as he teed up his re-election campaign with a claim that he needed more time to complete the transformation of France,” the Times of London reports.

“With far-right extremists like Eric Zemmour, 63, the anti-Islam pundit, and Marine Le Pen, 53, the leader of the National Rally, setting their agendas around immigration and crime, Macron painted himself as a pragmatic, common-sense centrist bent on unifying a fractured nation. Polls suggest Macron is in a strong position, comfortably ahead of Zemmour and Le Pen, his closest rivals, in both the first and second rounds of the election.”