Macron lead over Le Pen stabilises as election scrutiny intensifies

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Emmanuel Macron has consolidated his lead over Marine Le Pen as France’s presidential race enters its final week, according to polls, suggesting harsher scrutiny of the far-right challenger’s plans may be shifting the race’s dynamic.

Le Pen insisted on Monday she was better prepared this time around. “I hope it’s a real confrontation of ideas and not the succession of invective, fake news and excess like I’ve heard over the past week,” she said on the campaign trail in Normandy. With a long push to detoxify her party and soften her own image finally bearing fruit, analysts say Le Pen was also shielded by her first-round far-right rival, the virulently xenophobic TV pundit Éric Zemmour, who distracted media attention.

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Many Anglosphere 'conservatives', inc. Oz, talk down Macron at every opportunity; suggests preference for Putin admirer Le Pen, now funded by a Hungarian bank, & like Brexit, willing on a Frexit for libertarians & fossil fuels; KochNetwork & TantonNetwork.

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