This is beginning really to worry me.
Emile Macron is up for re-election next year, and Marine le Pen is already running pretty much neck and neck* with him in the polls.
Macron was originally very much the "hold your nose as you vote for the one who isn't a fascist" compromise candidate in the run-off last time, and there is certainly a less-than-negligible risk that the fascists will get in next time round. He's pretty much centre-right, though comparatively moderate as far as the French mainstream right go. He has to be competent, because people have very little political commitment to him.
He’s imposed a national lockdown, but he still won’t own up to his mistakes, says professor of French and European politics Philippe Marlière
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*ETA
All polls, trends and election news for the French parliament Assemblée nationale — LREM, LR, RN, FI, PS Sondages presented by POLITICO Poll of Polls
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Marine le Pen is currently at 27% and he's at 24%, so it will all depend on the run-offs, as it did when first he was elected.
By comparison, in 2017 he won 24.01% in the first round compared to her 21.30%, and then went on to win the second round at 66.1%-33.9%, so Macron is still clearly best placed to win, but after Brexit and Trump and Johnson, and a bloody great big black swan called Covid-19, we can't discount anything.