The National Rally leader has closed the gap on Macron as the country prepares to vote – and the far right is scenting victory
Jacky Ruiz was close to tears. For three hours he had waited to have his photograph taken with Marine Le Pen and now there it was. The former cabaret star stared at the picture on his outdated folding phone.
“Oh my goodness, this is so moving. I told her that I’d danced at a show attended by her father, Jean-Marie, back in the 1980s when she was a small girl and she said she was there and she remembered it,” the 70-year-old said. He pulled a battered black-and-white image of a long-legged dancer in a leotard from his pocket.
