Paris suburb feels little love for either presidential candidate

A young woman walks past an official campaign poster of Jean-Luc?Melenchon, leader of the far-left opposition party La?France?Insoumise (France?Unbowed - LFI) and L'Union populaire (popular union) candidate in the 2022 French presidential election, in Aubervilliers near Paris, France, April 14, 2022. Picture taken April 14, 2022. REUTERS/Johanna Geron

BOBIGNY, France (Reuters) - Boxing coach Kab Thiam has voted in a French election twice: in 2002 to block the far right's Jean-Marie Le Pen from power and again last Sunday for the hard left's presidential candidate.

Now, though, with his favourite Jean-Luc Melenchon out, the 39-year-old does not plan to vote in the April 24 runoff. He finds both aspirants, incumbent President Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen, daughter of Jean-Marie, distasteful.