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French President Emmanuel Macron has been traveling across Europe this week holding talks on the Russia-Ukraine crisis. But back home, his political opponents are battling it out, to see who will get to challenge him in April’s presidential election. Conservative lawmaker Valerie Pecresse is seen as a likely candidate, but as The World’s Europe correspondent Orla Barry reports, she has a long way to go to be a real contender.