FILE PHOTO: French far-right leader Marine Le Pen looks on during a joint news conference with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban in Budapest, Hungary, October 26, 2021. REUTERS/Bernadett Szabo
PARIS (Reuters) - France's 2022 presidential election is Emmanuel Macron's to lose. All opinion polls show the incumbent president reaching the second round and winning re-election.
However, after a first term mired in social unrest - during which he took steps to liberalise France's labour laws, cut taxes on the wealthy and businesses and tried to reconfigure trans-Atlantic relations - the margins are tighter than the drubbing he delivered to the far right's Marine Le pen in 2017.
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