Sitting on the terrace of a café, Daniel, a 60-year-old retired building contractor, is reluctant to talk about how he will vote in upcoming high-stakes snap legislative elections in France.
But the resident of Châteauroux, a small city in the centre of the country, has a lot of anger to vent against Emmanuel Macron. He believes the president is smug like the elites in Paris, has done little to curb rising crime and his move to increase the retirement age by two years is unfair.
The traditional left and rightwing parties that Daniel has voted for in the past have disappointed, so he is considering casting a first ballot for Marine Le Pen’s far-right Rassemblement National.