Emmanuel Macron’s novices rally to hear how their elusive leader plans to win a second term

The French president’s supporters welcomed his late arrival on the campaign trail at an event on Saturday in Paris’s business district

This time almost five years ago, Caroline Janvier was a member of the newly elected Emmanuel Macron’s army of would-be parliamentarians.

These “novices”, as La République En Marche – the pop-up party created to bring Macron to power – called them, were so green they were sent on a one-day crash course on how to run a campaign, organise and motivate a team and deal with the press.

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