'I don't believe that people will vote for this or that candidate because they do or do not support the president.'
Macron, who is set to seek a second mandate in 2022 polls, has attempted to downplay the significance of the vote for more than 500,000 councillors and nearly 35,000 mayors.Three years after President Emmanuel Macron swept to power promising a"revolution", have French voters definitively soured on him?
Polls showing Macron's four-year-old Republic on the Move party struggling in the March 15 vote, to be followed by a second round on March 22, which come amid a furore over the government's decision to force through unpopular pension reforms by decree. The coronavirus epidemic -- which has killed a dozen and infected hundreds in France -- looms large over the vote.
Macron, who is set to seek a second mandate in 2022 polls, has attempted to downplay the significance of the vote for more than 500,000 councillors and nearly 35,000 mayors.
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