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Macron, Le Pen exchange May Day blows on day of rallies and protests
Two opinion polls showed Macron winning what is widely seen as France’s most important election in decades with between 59 & 61% of the vote.
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French voters sceptical Macron, Le Pen have answers on key issues
Polls predict that Macron, a former economy minister, will win the 7 May run-off with about 59-60%.
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French voters skeptical Macron, Le Pen have answers on unemployment, security
According to the Ifop poll, 45% of voters believe the two finalists would not put an end to unemployment and 36% say neither candidate is able to protect France from attacks.
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French presidential foes take spin battle to tumble-drier factory
Macron said that if elected president, the firm’s redundancy plan would not be accepted if it was not good enough.
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Macron, Le Pen trade accusations in French election race
Macron and Le Pen, leader of the National Front (FN), go head-to-head on 7 May after taking the top two places in Sunday’s first round.
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Le Pen's father criticises her campaign as she steps back from party
With 7.5 million votes, Marine Le Pen beat the National Front party's previous election record on Sunday but failed to pip pro-EU Macron to the first place.
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Hollande urges French to reject Le Pen in presidential run-off vote
Macron and Le Pen, leader of the National Front (FN), go head-to-head on 7 May after taking the top two places in Sunday’s first round.
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Gloves off in French election as Le Pen aide calls Macron ‘arrogant’
Sunday’s outcome is a huge defeat for the two centre-right and centre-left groupings that have dominated French politics for 60 years.
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France’s Macron appears set for Elysee in runoff with Le Pen
Sunday’s outcome is a huge defeat for the two centre-right and centre-left groupings that have dominated French politics for 60 years.
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Projections say Macron, Le Pen go through to runoff in French vote
Defeated Socalist candidate Benoit Hamon urged voters to rally behind Macron in the second round, as did senior conservative lawmaker Francois Baroin.
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French presidential poll a bellwether for Europe
The possibility of a Le Pen-Melenchon run-off is not the most likely scenario but is one which alarms bankers and investors.
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France votes in cliffhanger presidential election
Macron is the opinion polls’ favourite to win the first round and beat National Front chief Marine Le Pen in the two-person run-off on 7 May.
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[OPINION] Why the French election is a pivotal test for Europe
A Le Pen victory could lead to France’s withdrawal from the eurozone and even from the European Union, a once-unthinkable prospect.
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Islamic State claims Paris shooting, one policeman killed
Paris Prosecutor Francois Molins said the man had been identified, but investigators were still assessing if he had accomplices.
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‘I will protect you!’ Le Pen tells voters ahead of presidential election
Opinion polls have for months shown Le Pen and centrist Emmanuel Macron qualifying on Sunday for the 7 May run-off.
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French presidential race tightens further as vote nears
The Ipsos-Sopra Sterna poll for daily Le Monde showed centrist Emmanuel Macron and far-right leader Marine Le Pen tied on 22% each in the 23 April first round.
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France’s Le Pen touches nerve with comment on wartime Jewish arrests
France has long struggled to come to terms with its role under the collaborationist Vichy regime during World War Two.
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Euro is a ‘knife in the ribs’ of the French says Le Pen
A government under Le Pen’s presidency would take France out of the euro zone and bring back a national currency.
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French presidential candidate Fillon suffers new setback as wife investigated
British-born Penelope Fillon will be investigated on suspicion of complicity in misappropriating public funds and several related offences.
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France’s Le Pen says the EU ‘will die’, globalists to be defeated
Opinion polls forecast that Le Pen will do well in the 23 April first round of the presidential election only to lose the 7 May run-off to Macron.
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Poll: France's Macron seen winning first round of presidentials, Fillon slips
Emmanuel Macron is set to win the first round of the French general election in four weeks time, BVA pollsters said.
