“The last time Emmanuel Macron was spotted in public, he was sporting a dark aviator’s jacket, Top Gun sunglasses and a black baseball cap,” Politico reports.
“His incognito rock star look, as he voted in the coastal town of Le Touquet Sunday, attracted plenty of attention on social media and rolling news channels.”
“But despite that moment of swagger, the truth is that Macron has taken a step back from public view lately. Apart from planned international commitments, he hasn’t been seen out and about for almost two weeks.”
Said one official: “He was told to stop campaigning… And it’s not really that he heard our message, it’s more that he was forced to hear it. The president underestimated how much the public were turned off by his personality.”
