Unrest in France is nightmare fuel for Macron’s heirs

PARIS — France’s center-right presidential candidates are bracing for more doom and gloom ahead of another tense day of protests Saturday, as polls suggest the combined effect of massive marches and the connected violence is fueling their rivals on both ends of the political spectrum. Five polls, including one commissioned by POLITICO , conducted in the aftermath of the unrest in France on Oct. 17 — when hundreds of thousands of protesters took to the streets while violence and looting broke out across the country — have all shown the same thing: The potential successors from President Emmanuel Macron’s coalition would be eliminated in the first round.