#New Statesman » Feed New Statesman » Comments Feed New Statesman » French election 2022: Can anyone beat President Emmanuel Macron? Comments Feed alternate alternate alternate -- -- 1. International Politics 2. French Election 2022 13 October 2021 -- -- 13 October 2021 French election 2022: Can anyone beat President Emmanuel Macron? Éric Zemmour, now polling second, is proving able to appeal to voters -- -- plurality of his support has so far come not from Le Pen’s 2017 base, but from the electorate of François Fillon, the candidate of the centre-right Republicans party at the last election. Zemmour is able to appeal to the Republicans voters in a way Le Pen never has. -- -- he will be comforted with the knowledge that there are more to come. Who will win the next French presidential election? Judging by the polls as they stand, not a left-winger. The French left -- -- Green Yannick Jadot do a little better, with 7 and 8 per cent each. Together with a handful of smaller candidates, the left as a whole polls barely a third of the vote. If replicated at the election next April, that would show a more right-wing French electorate than at any point since the Second World War. -- -- cent. Four years since his election, how popular is Macron? He consistently polls first in the first round, well ahead of all -- -- Why Emmanuel Macron’s war on the unvaccinated makes electoral sense French Election 2022 Why Emmanuel Macron’s war on the unvaccinated makes electoral sense