
He wanted it to be his Super Bowl moment.
Last Saturday, only a week before the first round of the French presidential elections, Emmanuel Macron held his first public rally in front of 30,000 flag-waving sympathisers in Europe’s biggest sports venue, the Défence Arena, just west of Paris. For three hours, the President-Candidate galvanized his audience with the success stories of his first five years in power and promised much more good news if re-elected. The first round of voting takes place on Sunday.