This is the Guardian.

Today, as French voters prepare for the first round of the country's presidential elections on Sunday,

the far-right is polling stronger than ever before.

Can Emmanuel Macron hold on?

Last weekend, mobbed by supporters, looking like a boxer entering the ring for a title fight.

France's president, Emmanuel Macron, addressed a massive election rally in Paris.

It was meant to be in Strafaganzer and it really was.

He appeared in its Europe's biggest sports venue and there were 30,000 people there,

Indor fireworks as he arrived.

Merci!

Why are you giving him five more years?

For the European Union, for the culture, for the youth,

for France, what matters for you in this election?

What matters for me is what matters for the youth people, like the environment,

ecological justice, social justice, and that's the subject that Emmanuel Macron is pointing

and I'm supporting him in this.

He went through many crises, the yellow vest jacket, the curve, and I think that first is one

of the countries that had the best managed situation and I want to give him five more years so that he can do

all what he had planned before.

So I think that he has to be elected.

We have to give him another chance to go deeper into the reform.

The extreme threat today is much bigger than before several months ago.

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