'How to lose an election': Macron gets it all wrong in Paris

By Michel Rose and Elizabeth Pineau PARIS (Reuters) - President Emmanuel Macron was surveying a glacier in the French Alps on a visit in February when an aide forwarded a video that had just been posted online, showing his choice for Paris mayor masturbating. Benjamin Griveaux's campaign was already floundering, a month out from the first round of the election, and his naiveté in falling for a simple sting meant Macron had to choose: back a loyal and trusted ally, or sack him. "Be there for him," Macron told advisers, according to a member of his inner circle. "And if he decides to press on, circle the wagons." Macron has consistently rewarded the early backers of his 2017 bid for the...