French election: What you need to know as Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen square off in Sunday’s runoff vote

Campaign posters of French far-right party Rassemblement National candidate Marine Le Pen and La Republique en Marche’s Emmanuel Macron

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It is crunch time for voters in France as centrist incumbent President Emmanuel Macron squares off with far-right nationalist Marine Le Pen at the ballot box in Sunday’s final presidential vote.

With foreign policy an issue as war ravages Ukraine, along with worries over inflation in one of the world’s biggest economies, the stakes could not be higher.