CNBC reports that presidential candidate Marine Le Pen's ties with Russia -which have been addressed by Emmanuel Macron during a debate between the two competitors- weaken her chances to be elected. Law professor at HEC Paris Business School Alberto Alemanno agrees: "This is set to capture the public imagination, by indissolubly associating a vote to Marine Le Pen to Putin’s Russia. To do so at the time of the Russian invasion of Ukraine appears one of the most powerful defenses to Macron’s presidency."