Just like in 2017, the first round of the presidential elections in France gave the majority of votes to Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen. This time, however, it might be harder for Emmanuel Macron to convince voters, some of them who were disappointed by his liberal policy, to elect him, noted the newspaper Wirtschaftswoche. Finance professor at HEC Paris Business Armin Steinbach thinks that "Macron will have to get more involved in social policy".