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Polling stations have opened for the second and final round of the French presidential election after Emmanuel Macron made a last-ditch effort to court young voters in a bid to save his presidency.

The leftist leaders of Germany, Spain, and Portugal urged the French public to back incumbent President Macron over Marine Le Pen.

A poll released this week suggests that six in ten French people would support the government banning the Islamic veil in public spaces, a policy favoured by Presidential election hopeful Marine Le Pen. The poll, which was conducted by the

Marion Marechal, a vice-president of Eric Zemmour’s Reconquest! party, has called for French conservatives and populists to form a united coalition in the upcoming parliamentary elections.

Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen duked it out on Wednesday evening, with the populist challenger pressuring the President in a debate on subjects including Islamism, immigration and the economy.

The head of France’s Office of Immigration has stated if Marine Le Pen wins the presidency, he refuses to “collaborate” with her. 

Marine Le Pen and Emmanuel Macron will face each other in a grudge match debate on Wednesday evening as polling between the two suggests that the election for the French Presidency remains a toss-up.

French bishops are not expected to direct worshippers on how to vote in the French presidential elections as more and more Roman Catholics have become supporters of populist challenger Marine Le Pen.

Emmanuel Macron has doubled down on his green agenda in the hopes of wooing leftist voters as fear grows that populist Le Pen may snatch victory.

Two men have been indicted after the death of a Jewish man who was beaten by a mob before being killed by a tram in the Paris suburbs. 

French presidential hopeful Marine Le Pen has been denounced by a former British ambassador to France for talking up a military alliance with post-Brexit Britain.

The president of a French university has come under fire after telling students and faculty to vote against populist Marine Le Pen.

Populist presidential Marine Le Pen has hinted at the possibility of a referendum that could see the death penalty return to France.

Emmanuel Macron has claimed that those who criticise French lockdown policy are not living in the ‘real world’, while praising one veil-wearing Muslim woman as a feminist.

French prosecutors opened an investigation following riots involving far-left extremists after the first round of the presidential election. 

Disgraced former French President Nicolas Sarkozy has become the latest establishment figure to back Emmanuel Macron in his re-election bid.

Speaking in the run up to April 24 French Presidential Election, populist candidate Marine Le Pen has called for a “referendum revolution” to put sweeping policy changes to a democratic vote, claiming President Emmanuel Macron has given power to technocrats.

Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen took the top spots and will face off again in 13 days’ time to decide the next French President.

The candidate for the establishment-right Républicains (Republicans) has urged voters to back the left-liberal Emmanuel Macron, not the national conservative Marine Le Pen, as exit polls indicate her own performance in the first round of France’s presidential elections was a dismal failure. 

PARIS (AP) – French voters in Sunday’s presidential election will use the same system that’s been used for generations: paper ballots that are cast in person and counted by hand. Despite periodic calls for more flexibility or modernization, France doesn’t do mail-in voting, early voting or use voting machines en masse like the United States.

PARIS (AP) – President Emmanuel Macron said Friday he has no fear of losing France’s presidential election despite far-right rival Marie Le Pen narrowing the gap in opinion polls ahead of Sunday’s first-round vote.

A survey released by a Brazilian-based firm this week has revealed that populist leader Marine Le Pen may be pulling ahead of President Emmanuel Macron as France votes in the first round of its presidential elections this weekend.

The death of a Jewish man who was chased by a mob and hit by a tram has received scrutiny In the final days of the French election.

As his main rival Marine Le Pen surges in the polls, Emmanuel Macron has bailed on a major debate featuring all other presidential election hopefuls.

France’s President Emmanuel Macron has, in an effort to fend off populist political opposition, claimed he is “against woke culture”.

A poll has found that 66 per cent of French would support a mass “remigration” of illegal immigrants, foreigners on terror watchlists, and foreign criminals from France.

Presidential Candidate Eric Zemmour has promised to kick out one million migrants from France within five years should he be elected.

French President Emmanuel Macron will not join any debates ahead of the first round of the upcoming presidential election, instead stating he would prefer to debate with the French people.

Marion Maréchal, the niece of Presidential hopeful Marine Le Pen, has formally joined the presidential campaign of her right-wing rival.

Marion Maréchal, former French MP and niece of Marine Le Pen, is expected to join the presidential campaign of the conservative writer and pundit Eric Zemmour and appear at a rally this weekend in Toulon.

With only days to spare, both Eric Zemmour and Marine Le Pen have managed to scrape together enough endorsements from elected officials to earn a spot within the French presidential race.

French presidential hopeful Eric Zemmour has said that he would rather refugees fleeing Ukraine remain in Poland, with France already suffering from the ‘destabilising force’ of immigration.

Descendents of the well respected French monarch King Louis XIV have voiced their support for presidential candidate Eric Zemmour, a fact the populist firebrand is reportedly ‘very proud’ of.

Populist candidate Marine Le Pen has surged in recent polling, while centre-right Les Republicains candidate Valérie Pécresse has slumped.

French presidential hopeful Marine Le Pen has paused her election campaign over a lack of official endorsements needed for her to run for office in April.

French Presidential candidate Zemmour has announced that he had a “warm” conversation with former President Donald Trump on Monday evening.