France's left could be decisive in who wins the election. But will they turn out to vote?
Some of France's left-wing voters are struggling to decide how to vote in the presidential run-off that will see incumbent President Emmanuel Macron face far-right candidate Marine Le Pen.
Even those who say they are planning on voting for Macron in the second round said that it would be hard to put his name in the envelope this time around.
"I have the feeling that now here we go again for five more years. It’s like a prison sentence, I feel like we’re not advancing, all the climate issues have been swept away," said 30-year-old Anselm, who attended a protest against the far-right in Lyon over the weekend.
He voted for far-left candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon who came third in the first round of France's election and Anselm said he has now made the decision to vote "for the other candidate" in the second round.
"I am voting against Marine Le Pen," he said.
When asked to clarify whether that meant he would vote for Macron, Anselm said: "I’m going to vote for Macron and then I’m going to keep protesting in the streets against him because I’m sick of strategic voting, I hope this will be the last time."
Both Le Pen and Macron have been attempting to woo voters who supported Mélenchon, who won 22% of the vote in the first round, just a point shy of Le Pen.
He was the third major candidate to emerge in the election with the rest receiving under 8% of voter support.
Mélenchon called for his supporters "not to give a single vote to Marine Le Pen". But he stopped short of calling on them to vote for Macron, unlike several other first-round candidates including the Green Party's Yannick Jadot, right-wing Valérie Pécresse and socialist Anne Hidalgo.
Instead, Mélenchon has shifted his focus to legislative elections in June, urging French
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