Has Emmanuel Macron fixed France's political mess?

France’s leader has struggled to frame the July election as anything but a humiliating personal defeat.

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Still only 46 years old, France’s suave leader can already point back to a glittering career path strewn with obstacles avoided or overcome.

A meteoric rise, the transformation of France’s political landscape, the formation of his own triumphant party, securing the presidency twice, subduing the gilets jaunes (yellow-jacket) protests, pension reform, and this summer’s glorious Paris Olympics.

“He’s incredibly smart, a very hard worker, dynamic and creative,” conceded a former minister, Jean-Michel Blanquer, in a recent French newspaper interview, despite falling out with the president.

So how do you persuade a man like Emmanuel Macron to accept that he may, at last, have messed up badly?

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