Macron courts Marseille voters as climate activists stage Paris demo

French President Emmanuel Macron (AP)

French President Emmanuel Macron has held a major campaign rally in Marseille, touting his environmental and climate actions and plans in a bid to draw in young voters who supported more politically extreme candidates in the first round of France’s presidential election.

Citizens and especially millennials in Marseille, a multicultural southern French city on the Mediterranean, favoured hard-left candidate Jean-Luc Melenchon over the centrist Mr Macron in the first round of voting on April 10.