Macron May Have Lost EU Vote, But He's Looking Good for 2022
- French president’s support similar to his results in 2017
- Marine Le Pen’s party won 23.3% of the vote, Macron’s 22.4%
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Sunday’s European parliamentary election wasn’t a great night for Emmanuel Macron, but it was worse for all his rivals. And that means the French president remains in pole position for re-election in 2022.
Macron’s party, Republic on the Move, finished behind Marine Le Pen’s National Rally in the EU ballot, an embarrassment for the president who had turned the vote into a de facto referendum on his vision of greater EU integration.