Sophy: Macron knows he can't be complaisant, that he does still suffer from this image of being a remote president. And on the far left, jan melenchan too has been caught out by the fact that he has found it very difficult to condemn much of russia's aggression over the past few years. Sophy: Even with this popularity problem, it is increasingly hard now to see how mister maron won't, next month, in the end, keep his job.