With just two weeks to go before the European Union elections, let's take a look at the race in France. The political landscape there has been shaken up over the past six months by Yellow Vest protesters - who say they don't feel represented by traditional politicians on the left OR right. The far right is seeking to capitalize on this distrust of mainstream politics - as Elena Casas reports.

Jordan Bardella could be about to become the big winner of France's European elections.

He's the lead candidate for the National Rally - and he's only 23.

JORDAN BARDELLA EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT LEAD CANDIDATE, NATIONAL RALLY "I'm bringing youth and energy to the campaign, I am young but I have experience. I'm a local counsellor in the suburbs of Paris, in a difficult area, and I'm from a humble background, I understand people."

Mr Bardella is the new face of the party of Marine Le Pen - which has been rebranded the National Rally, in an attempt to move away from the connotations of its old name - the National Front.

Critics say it hasn't changed, but the party says it's moving away from a focus on immigration and Islam to highlight issues like low wages and poor public services in rural areas.

JORDAN BARDELLA EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT LEAD CANDIDATE, NATIONAL RALLY "We're interested in this France that's been forgotten, Marine Le Pen has been saying this since 2011, the state at the moment chooses to spend all its money in big cities, villages like this have been forgotten, public services close one after another and life disappears from these places. We want to bring it back."

That rhetoric has a lot in common with the complaints of the Yellow Vest movement - which has brought protesters onto the streets against the government of Emmanuel Macron every Saturday for the last six months.

ELENA CASAS ROCQUIGNY, FRANCE "Jordan Bardella is from the suburbs of Paris, but most of his campaign rallies are happening in small towns like this. It's in places like this, hundreds of miles from Paris, that the Yellow Vests have attracted most support."

Here in the Ardennes, a widespread lack of faith in mainstream politicians is attracting people to the National Rally.

"Let's try a change, we've tried the right, the left, the centre, so why not an extreme?"

"They have original ideas, the others just say the same things in different ways."

"Anyway, we no longer believe what any of them say!"

But for many Yellow Vests, Marine Le Pen and her party are establishment politicians like any other.

Singer Francis Lalanne is leading a list of Yellow Vest candidates for the European Parliament - all of them new to politics.

Mr Lalanne's Yellow Alliance manifesto is focused on tax justice and direct democracy - traditionally left-wing ideas - but the leaderless Yellow Vests movement is divided and politically diverse, with two other groups competing for votes who are much closer to the far right.

Polls suggest none of them will win enough votes to send MEPs to Brussels - but they could dent support for the National Rally.

At the moment, the far-right group is level in the polls with President Macron's pro-European campaign, Renaissance - meaning every vote will count.

Elena Casas, CGTN, Rocquigny in the Ardennes, France.