Election Success for Emmanuel Macron May Mask Real Challenges
Davy said that The businesses with fewer than 10 employees are the lifeblood of France, but I have the impression of working to pay social taxes,
Luc Rouban said that represent the upper-middle class, largely those with degrees, and the problem in France is
that the popular classes, the workers, the blue-collar workers, they are not represented t
He’s younger, he’s going to make the country move." Candidates who, like Ms. Haïry, are political
unknowns running under Mr. Macron’s umbrella, have been able to take advantage of his glow.
Ms. Haïry is in many ways representative of the candidates chosen by République En Marche
and its ally the Democratic Movement — she comes from the Democratic Movement wing.
"The people are tired of half solutions." Noura Moreau, 45, who runs a restaurant
and also serves as an assistant mayor in a neighboring town, was enthusiastic enough to join the campaign of the local République en Marche candidate, Sarah El Haïry, 28.
The voters who turn out for Ms. Haïry, and those who sound open to voting for her, are in many respects a bit like the candidate: driven, optimistic
and high achieving, although some are far older than she is.
With a shock of red-pink hair, Ms. Davy rushed around her salon on a recent day, periodically stopping
to give a short lecture to Ms. Haïry about the difficulties of being a small-business woman.