Backlash over plan to force French town halls to display presidential portrait
by Angelique Chrisafis in Paris from World news | The Guardian on (#6BP0K)
Critics have attacked proposals by members of Emmanuel Macron's centrist party as a cult of the leader'
A proposal by two lawmakers from Emmanuel Macron's centrist party to make it obligatory for town halls to display a portrait of the French president has sparked a political row.
The portrait issue has been seized upon by Macron's critics as he travels around France in an attempt to counter accusations of arrogance and haughtiness, amid saucepan banging and street protests against the rise in the pension age.
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