It's definitely time to Emmanuel Macron: the independent candidate, leader of the liberal-progressive movement "En marche!", who until a few months ago was considered a mere outsider, is now ever closer to becoming the new president of the French Republic. At least according to the latest polls, which less than a month before the first round (voting takes place on April 23) see him on an equal footing with Marine Le Pen, a percentage that would comfortably guarantee both the ballot (the third name is that of François Fillon, stopped at 20% of the votes).
Once the ballot is reached, the doors of the Elysée would probably open for Macron, given that he would win with 64% against the 36% credited to the leader of the Front National. Macron has also obtained the endorsement of former premier (with whom he shared the experience as economy minister, in the final part of Hollande's mandate) Manuel Valls: a support that may not mean too much in electoral terms (Valls is not much loved and in fact in the socialist primaries he was soundly defeated by Benoit Hamon), but which instead is a strong political signal, of a rapprochement of a part of the Socialist Party - the more moderate one - to Macron's centrist and pro-European project. A project which, against all predictions of a few months ago and also thanks to the fall of the Republican Fillon due to the well-known judicial troubles, could be the winning one.
