How to have paid off Emmanuel Macron's great risk in the election campaign

Even the French President admitted some nervousness when Marine Le Pen opened before the first round on Sunday.

It was an impressive comeback by Ms. Le Pen, who had been written off for Mr. Macron in the expected procession victory.

When it came to Le Crunch, Mr. Macron received 28.5 percent of the votes towards Ms. Le Pen with 24.2 percent.

In 2017, Mr. Macron received 24 percent in the first round towards Ms. Le Pen with 21.3 percent. He won convincing 66 percent against Ms. Le Pen in the runoff election for the presidency after pondering her in a television debate about the economy.

The Cordon Sanitaire, the congress, which makes many voters support those who keep the National Assembly away from Elysee, continues to work in his favor.

urban voters supported Mr. Macron, and Ms. Le Pen's late increase in surveys has had an impact on his favor. The fear of a president Le Pen motivated her to go beyond a low turnout despite many rumors and to support her husband.

Mr. Macron warned his followers to come into force at his only rally when the gap closes. He confessed that he may have stopped starting his campaign too late, which now looks like a very clever move.

Mr. Macron's campaign could have survived through his influential role in the war in Ukraine. His diplomacy has criticized criticism abroad, but the French public sees a man who is treated as equivalent by Washington and Moscow.

The couple will now compete against each other in two elections in the final round of the French presidential elections, with Mr. Macron being a clear favorite.

The history of the volume is subtle compared to 2017.

Mr. Macron is no longer a disruptor who has freshly resigned from the ruling socialist party in order to apply for the presidency. He is the establishment.

His campaign was pursued by rumors about enormous expenses for private consulting companies, which only cemented perception that he is a "president of the rich".

The "Jupiterian" president had neglected the election campaign. In contrast, Ms. Le Pen had a full schedule with events, visits and appeared.

In the past five years, she has given up all the talks about the frexit and tried to rename her party.

The immigration left it to Eric Zemmour, the TV expert with a slope to hate Speech, whose campaign finally withered despite the whole hype.

In her third tendency to the presidency, the Schönfäriei brings some results with a reported wave of the support of 18- to 24-year-olds, which, according to some surveys, support you.

Ms. Le Pen concentrated on rural France and made domestic politics a focus. Instead of demanding the end of the euro, she called for a reduction in fuel taxes and contain the increase in living costs.

It is a field for the voices of the middle class and the famous Gillet Jaunes or yellow vests.

The voters of Zemmour will go to Le Pen, but the supporters of the Republicans could feel torn. No wonder that the clever Mr. Macron Nicolas Sarkozy used the farm and uses harder rhetoric to use crime and migration.

The final victory should now belong to Mr. Macron, whose risk of making little and late election campaign, apparently paid off.

But he still sees himself more tricky opponent than in 2017, although his most dangerous enemy will probably be complacency now.