And what they ll do next is harder to predict. the unwritten rule that everyone in france comes together to block the far right seems to be fraying and the two visions france has chosen for president show how divided this nation is. lucy williamson, bbc news, paris. earlier, i spoke to keteevan gorjestani, france 24 s washington correspondent, about how the election is unfolding. well, there is a sense that emmanuel macron is going to have to do actually start campaigning. there s a feeling in france that the president sort of was focused on the russia ukraine crisis and it helped him in the beginning, because he was seen as a statesman, but then he sort of stayed on that statesman level and didn t really focus on the domestic campaign, if you will, while marine le pen actually did focus on that. the question is, how are they going to try and address these two elements?
Start campaigning emmanuel macron. start campaigning emmanuel macron. , . macron. there is a feeling in france that macron. there is a feeling in france that the macron. there is a feeling in france that the president. macron. there is a feeling in | france that the president was focused on the russia ukraine crisis and it help him in the beginning, because he was seen as a statesman, but then he sort of stayed on that statesman level and didn t really focus on the domestic campaign, if you will, while marine le pen actually did focus on that. the question is, how are they going to try and address these two elements. emmanuel macron is going to have to come back to the domestic campaign, try to explain to those who did not vote for him why they should vote for him why they should vote for him why they should vote for emmanuel macron and not just stay home vote for emmanuel macron and notjust stay home or vote vote for emmanuel macron and not just stay home or vote for marine
For france? this election will hang on those who don t like either emmanuel macron or marine le pen. and what they ll do next is harder to predict. the unwritten rule that everyone in france comes together to block the far right seems to be fraying and the two visions france has chosen for president show how divided this nation is. lucy williamson, bbc news, paris. earlier, i spoke to france 2a, washington correspondent about how the election is unfolding. well, there is a sense that emmanuel macron is going to have to do actually start campaigning. there s a feeling in france that the president sort of was focused on the russia ukraine crisis and it helped him in the beginning, because he was seen as a statesman, but then he sort of stayed on that statesman level and didn t really focus on the domestic campaign, if you will, while marine le pen actually did focus on that.