PARIS: The French voted on Sunday in an election that will decide whether pro-European Union, centrist President Emmanuel Macron keeps his job or is unseated by far-right eurosceptic Marine Le Pen in what would amount to a political earthquake.
A Le Pen victory would mark a political upheaval for Western democracies on a par with Brexit or the US election of Donald Trump in 2016, ending decades of rule by mainstream French leaders and the latest threat to the future of the European Union. Hugo Winter, a 26-year-old salesman in Paris, said he would be among those who would not bother to cast a vote.
"He has his faults but he has qualities too. He is the one best placed to continue, we are living through difficult times," she said. "The question on Sunday is simple: Macron or France," she told a rally in the northern town of Arras on Thursday.Among early voters in the village of Souille, near the northwestern town of Le Mans, civil servant Pascal Pauloin, 56, said he had voted for Le Pen out of disenchantment with Macron.
Jean-Daniel Levy, of Harris Interactive pollsters, said opinion surveys showed Le Pen was unlikely to win, because that would require huge shifts in voter intentions.
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