and polarising election campaign.and there are indications he bolstered his advantage with a combative performance in the one-off election debate against a somewhat defensive Le Pen.
The stakes are huge - Le Pen would become modern France's first far-right leader and first female president. Macron would be the first French president to win re-election in two decades. But voters in French overseas territories that span the globe will start voting earlier Paris time, beginning with those in North America and the Caribbean on Saturday, followed by the Pacific and then the Indian Ocean.Saturday is marked by a campaign blackout, with no campaigning allowed and no more polls published.
Macron for his part said Le Pen was trying to mask an authoritarian"extreme right" platform that stigmatises Muslims with a plan to outlaw headscarves in public. Posters of current president Emmanuel Macron and opponent Marine Le Pen in Eguisheim, France, on April 21, 2022. PHOTO: AFP
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