Who is popular today?

France’s presidential elections often offer surprising twists and turns that extend through two rounds of voting. This time it’s no different. At first, April’s ballot looked set to be a re-run of 2017, when Emmanuel Macron went up against far-right nationalist Marine Le Pen and easily won, securing the center with his new En Marche! party, which broke the traditional left-to-right swings of French politics. But the emergence of additional candidates on the right has made the race more complicat