in the past months, president de manuel mccaul established himself as a leader on the international stage, seen as a major player negotiates head to head with russia. but recently the front runner has seen his numbers full as his main rival for right candidate marine, the pen has focused on domestic issues in play to widespread fears of immigration and terrorism. dw correspondence. sonya found the car joins me now from outside a polling station in central paris as sonya. nice to have you with us. perhaps what's most striking is at this late stage as we just heard, a 3rd of the voters are undecided what exactly explains this indecisiveness. hi. good morning. well, i think part of the problem is simply a bit of water fatigue. little. what is the coming out of a, to your pandemic? there's a, there's a war reaching in the heart of europe the band because also meant that this election has been quite different in the sense that not too many inputs and rallies have been held, not totally live debates. there's not, not been any st canvassing as of convention elections. i think that was part of th