barbara. hazel is standing by for us at mclean party headquarters, where the incumbent is said to be coming to the stage any moment. now barbara, maybe you can tell them, tell us about the crowd. it probably waiting with great anticipation for, for their man to come out in the stage. i wish i had just seen his scythe, motorcade racing along the say. now you might be just a few minutes from here from the course of his side convention hall, where he is meeting his supporters and new way. he will speak to them and of course to the nation because he is still president of the company to about prong by motorcycle outriders, said that they were really sort of pushing it because i think now he finally fields certain enough about he is the strong leader in this 1st round, and the numbers and the figures might be reliable enough, right at the moment that he now dare is on the basis of that to speak to is supporting his party and french voters. in general, of course, we will have 2 more weeks now off campaigning task campaigning. he really needs to set up and put the bandages on and really needs

thanks very much for the latest from there and we're going to turned back to barbara hazel. we are all still waiting for president manuel icon to take the stage. what is the atmosphere there? are they as supporters, there is as much dissipation as we are here waiting for my own to come speak. not, not so shouting and yelling here and chanting, i think people, his supporters in this whole, they finally want to see him. and basically he's supposed to be in the building because we can use motor grade enter. this is the, the big entrance of this convention center. so he should be here presently. but if i may pick up on something that a bit earlier when you asked her about the challenges for is 2nd presidency a 2nd round. i mean, his 1st round has been difficult. as you mentioned, we had the yellow vessels and then viet corona, and then yet the war in ukraine. so he was sort of really a sort of credit crisis in constant crisis. and a are the yelling sort of gets more intense. are you shaking hands outside of the doors at the entrance of all the year. but the 2nd presidency could

and we can get more on all of that with our dw correspondent barbara hazel, who's standing by microns party headquarters. so barbara micron facing far right le pen in the runoff election. what you're going to do to rally support of the supporters of all the other candidates who didn't make it through. and we just heard the discussion of party representatives of all the parties that i had been running during the selections in the background here. and do with somebody from the left to said he needs to step down from his pedestal and really campaign. and that is something that probably he has by now understood because in his advisors must have told him this is the very last moment that he really has to go out and get close to the french people. we have also, during the last minutes heard that he has got to endorsement. he has got the endorsement from valerie b. kress who failed miserably was under 5 prison. her task had been to revive the conservative dish. no french conservative party. i couldn't manage it at all. but then she just came out and said, i have wanted more, but i failed. an