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Macron tells voters: Now choose the France you want

French President Emmanuel Macron and far-right challenger Marine Le Pen made final appeals on Friday to undecided voters weighing fears of what a Le Pen presidency could bring against their anger at Macron's record.

Reuters

Love thy enemy: Critics key for Macron in France's election

Disgruntled left-wing voters whose candidates were knocked out in the first round of France's election are the wild cards in the winner-takes-all runoff on Sunday

The Independent UK

London’s French fear Le Pen election victory

She would loosen ties with Europe, say capital’s voters rooting for Macron

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Le Pen calls on voters to choose 'between Macron and France' at final campaign rally

Far-right candidate Marine Le Pen urged voters to choose "between Macron and France" as she held her final campaign rally in the northern town of Arras on Thursday, hoping to sway undecided voters ahead of Sunday’s final presidential vote.

France 24

French election results - live: Macron vows to be ‘president for all’ in victory speech

President set to remain in office as exit polls forecast second term and Le Pen’s defeat

The Independent UK

What would Le Pen, Macron do for France's cost of living crisis?

The cost of living crisis is the top issue for most French voters, ahead of the second round of the presidential election on Sunday. With Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen preparing to spar in a televised debate, what measures are the candidates proposing? Also in the show: Netflix loses…

France 24

Marine Le Pen seen as Putin's puppet with French voters branding election 'depressing'

Elderly voters like Denis Benoest and Grognier Huguette want to oust Emmanuel Macron from the Elysee Palace in Paris and put in his place Marine Le Pen as they welcome her controversial policies

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France's Authoritarian Establishment Faces Off Against the Even Uglier Authoritarianism of the Far Right

French President Emmanuel Macron is authoritarian-light. Candidate Marine Le Pen is worse.

Reason

Emmanuel Macron may be the de facto leader of Europe, but could he lose the French presidency to rival Marine Le Pen?

Emmanuel Macron's status as Europe's de facto leader, which has been cemented by the current crisis in Ukraine, certainly aligns with his ambitions. But could it cost him the French presidency?

ABC News

The Guardian view on Macron v Le Pen: no room for complacency

Editorial: The outgoing French president has lengthened his lead ahead of Sunday’s runoff vote. But the far right is achieving mainstream acceptance

The Guardian - UK

Marine Le Pen: A political animal vying to win the Élysée Palace

Marine Le Pen has worked for years at polishing the rough edges of the far-right National Rally, the party her rabble-rousing father Jean-Marie founded a half-century ago as the National Front, seeking the breakthrough that would finally secure the French presidency. For all her efforts, after eight attempts – Le…

France 24

Those worrying about France’s far right should look closer to home

Letter: In the UK, the far right is already in power, writes Angèle David-Guillou in response to Owen Jones’s article on the state of French politics

The Guardian - UK

Macron hits below the belt on election campaign trail

A day after the gloves came off in a combative debate between Emmanuel Macron and his far-right challenger Marine Le Pen, the president sparred with a new partner on Thursday as France's election campaign neared its close.

Reuters

Podcast: Macron vs Le Pen, Mélenchon supporters protest, France's first elected woman

The two presidential candidates faced off in a three-hour debate Wednesday in which they tried to convince undecided voters. Did it work? Leftist Mélenchon voters on what to do in the second round. And the first woman elected to office in France in 1925.

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Financial Times

‘A demand for dignity’: How French Muslims lost faith in Macron after security shift

Community disappointed by president for neglecting poorer suburbs and passing divisive anti-terror laws

The Independent UK

When will the French election results be announced?

Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen enter finals days of campaigning ahead of Sunday’s vote

France 24

'Spreading the word': Going door-to-door with Macron campaigners in Paris

Just days ahead of the second and final round of the presidential election on Sunday, supporters of Emmanuel Macron are multiplying their efforts to encourage voters to cast their ballots for the incumbent president. But even in a Parisian neighbourhood that voted 42.35 percent in favour of Macron in the…

The Independent UK

French election 2022 – live: Polls put Macron ahead of Le Pen after presidential debate

Candidates head out for final campaign push

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The Guardian - UK

Election debate marks normalisation of far-right politics in France

Analysis: 20 years on from Jean-Marie Le Pen’s advance to second round, his daughter’s ‘detoxification’ bears fruit

The Independent UK

European leaders back Macron as French campaign nears end

Just days before France's crucial presidential runoff vote, the center-left leaders of Germany, Spain and Portugal are urging French voters to choose centrist President Emmanuel Macron over far-right nationalist rival Marine Le Pen

The Conversation

Many young French voters are approaching the presidential runoff with a shrug and vow to 'vote blank'

The race for the presidential post in France began with 12 candidates. It will conclude on April 24 with the same choice that confronted voters five years earlier: the centrist Emmanuel Macron or the far-right Marine Le Pen.

Reuters

French far-right candidate Le Pen says second Macron term would spell "social disaster"

French far-right candidate Marine Le Pen said on Thursday a second term for President Emmanuel Macron would spell "social disaster", days before she faces him for the second time in a runoff vote.

The Independent UK

Tensions over race, religion in France's presidential race

France’s presidential campaign has been difficult for voters of immigrant heritage and religious minorities

France 24

Emmanuel Macron: After French president's meteoric rise, a rocky road lay ahead

Emmanuel Macron won office in 2017 running as an independent centrist and an ambitious reformer. The youngest president elected in France's modern political era, Macron's rise to the Élysée Palace atop a fledgling party he had founded himself was swift and iconoclastic. But far from that smooth road, his five-year…

Reuters

France's Macron consolidates poll lead after TV clash

French President Emmanuel Macron has maintained and possibly slightly extended his lead over far-right challenger Marine Le Pen following a prickly television head-to-head debate which he was judged to have won, polls showed on Thursday.

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