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French presidential hopefuls rally on penultimate day of campaigning

Presidential candidates are stepping up their campaign efforts on the second last day on the hustings, with media appearances, regional trips and final rallies ahead of Sunday's first-round vote that has seen the gap narrowing between the two favourites, Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen.

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Éric Zemmour: The far-right insurgent reshaping the race for the French presidency

One in three voters say they will cast their ballot for a far-right candidate in the French presidential election this weekend.

ABC News

French presidential election 2022: Who are the frontrunners and when do polls open?

Incumbent president is facing challenges from both far left and far right

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The Guardian view on Marine Le Pen’s surge: alarm bells ring

Editorial: Emmanuel Macron is still the likely winner of this month’s presidential election. But he will need the support of the left

The Guardian - UK

France to help ICC with investigations into massacres blamed on Russian forces in Ukraine

After a meeting between President Emmanuel Macron and his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky, the Elysée Palace has announced that France will offer financial and human resources to support investigations into the alleged massacre of civilians by Russian troops in Ukraine.

Radio France Internationale

Tax fraud inquiry into consultancy firms launched as French election looms

Prosecutors open inquiry after ‘McKinsey affair’ row over public spending on consultants

The Guardian - UK

French election: Minority youth voice frustrations ahead of vote

Ahead of first round of presidential elections, French youth express their fears and frustrations about the candidates.

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Explainer-What's at stake in France's presidential election?

The French vote on Sunday in the first round of a presidential election that will determine who runs the European Union's second-largest economy, and its only member with a permanent U.N. Security Council seat, as war rages on the bloc's doorstep.

Reuters

Cohen case: Security and discrimination return to the heart of France's election debate

The death of a young Jewish man who was killed by a tram while running away from a mob has pushed crime to the centre of France's presidential election campaign just days ahead of voting.

Radio France Internationale

'McKinsey Affair': Prosecutors probe French state's use of private consultancy firms

France's financial prosecutor said on Wednesday it had opened a preliminary investigation into the role of private consultancy firms used by the state and into possible tax fraud, just days ahead of the first round of France's presidential election.

France 24

In rural France, voter indecision opens door to Macron's foes

Health worker Josiane Comtesse is almost certain she will vote for President Emmanuel Macron in Sunday's presidential election, but then she reflects on his plan to make the French work longer and her perception that he is arrogant and she thinks again.

Reuters

'Useful vote': French voters irk presidential contenders with 'tactical' ballots

Presidential campaigns offer an abundance of catch phrases, whether slogans finessed by a candidate's team to deliver maximum impact or coined spontaneously on the trail. The proclamations of presidential hopefuls bring texture to an election race and come to define a campaign – for a news cycle or forever in…

France 24

France's top presidential contenders: Who's proposing what?

Sunday's first round of the French presidential election involves one frontrunner, centrist incumbent Emmanuel Macron, seeking a second term, and eleven challengers from the far left to the far right

The Independent UK

Macron leads polls but turnout a big question in French vote

French President Emmanuel Macron is the clear favorite in the country's presidential vote on Sunday

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Live updates | Russia-Ukraine War

Russian forces overnight struck a fuel depot and a factory in Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk region, and the number of casualties remains unclear, the region’s governor Valentyn Reznichenko said Wednesday on the Telegram messaging app

Reuters

French election poll: Macron to beat Le Pen but Le Pen gains ground

French President Emmanuel Macron would beat Marine Le Pen in the country's presidential election later this month, though Le Pen has gained ground in recent weeks, showed an Ipsos Sopra Steria Cevipof poll for Le Monde newspaper.

Reuters

Far-left Melenchon makes last push to reach French presidential run-off

Far-left French candidate Jean-Luc Melenchon talked climate, feminism and cost of living at a rally on Tuesday in a bid to persuade youth and undecided voters ahead of Sunday's ballot.

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‘Wrong about Putin’: Did Germany and France turn a blind eye to the threat from Russia?

The escalating civilian toll of Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine has fuelled calls for a reappraisal of more than a decade of French and German efforts to engage with a leader whose forces stand accused of committing horrific war crimes in Ukraine.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Macron Seeks to Revive Lackluster Campaign and Fend off Le Pen Comeback

Strolling around a small town in northwestern France, beaming to crowds shouting "Macron President!," Emmanuel Macron sought to revive a lackluster campaign whose increasingly uncertain outcome rattled markets on Tuesday. Macron is still ahead in opinion polls but his far-right, euroskeptic rival Marine Le Pen has been closing the gap,…

The Independent UK

An election too close to call: Macron wilts under pressure from a resurgent Le Pen

A month ago Emmanuel Macron looked certain to win the French presidency but, as Sunday’s first vote beckons, it could be Marine Le Pen who ends up in the Elysee Palace

Radio France Internationale

Mélenchon holds last campaign meeting and projects himself using 11 holograms

Five days before the French presidential election's first round, far-left candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon is holding the last major meeting of his presidential campaign in Lille, broadcast live in eleven other cities thanks to holograms, a technology he already used in 2017.

The Guardian - UK

French presidential rivals seize on death of Jewish man as ‘antisemitic attack’

Politicians suggest coverup over death of Jérémy Cohen, who was hit by tram as he ran from group of men

France 24

France's Mélenchon looks to magic up more leftist votes with hologram campaign rallies

Five days before the French presidential election's first round, far-left candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon is multiplying his efforts – and, in a sense, himself – in a spectacular bid to rally hesitant lefists onside with one final high-tech rally before Sunday's crucial vote. Mélenchon will take the stage on Tuesday night…

Reuters

In challenge to Macron, France's biggest voting bloc may be abstainers

Capucine Blond should vote on Sunday in her first presidential election but the disconnect the French teenager feels with the ruling elite is so great that she has decided there is no point.

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