Emmanuel Macron Is Losing His Urban Grip - BNN Bloomberg
There were two obvious losers in France's runoff round of local elections, held this weekend after a three-month delay caused by the Covid-19 epidemic. One was democracy. Only about 40% of eligible voters bothered to turn up, a record low. The other was President Emmanuel Macron, whose core urban fan base went Green.
The eco-friendly EELV party snatched control of several big cities, from Lyon to Bordeaux, while Paris remained in the hands of its car-bashing Socialist mayor, Anne Hidalgo. Macron's party, La Republique En Marche!, flopped. It wasn't so much a green wave as a green "tsunami."
