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Marine Le Pen faces Emmanuel Macron in a run-off vote on Sunday to be France's next president. View on euronews
Emmanuel Macron visits on Thursday (April 21) the low-income Seine-Saint-Denis region outside Paris. He lagged far behind Melenchon in round one in the region, where purchasing power and housing have been voters' main concerns. FRANCE 24's Julia Kim tells us more.
On April 24, Marine Le Pen will seek to cause the greatest upset in modern French political history by defeating Emmanuel Macron in a run-off in presidential elections. The incumbent is still the favorite but by a narrower margin than in their last duel in 2017. Our campaign commentator Angela Diffley explains the candidates' latest clash over Le Pen's ban women from wearing the Islamic headscarf in public.
French President Emmanuel Macron campaigned in Le Havre on Thursday where he is expected to talk about ecology. Facing a tougher-than expected fight for reelection, Macron hit the campaign trail. FRANCE 24's Julia Kim reports from Le Havre.
Macron, the incumbent president with strong pro-European views, and Le Pen, an anti-immigration nationalist, couldn’t have more radically opposed visions of the EU and foreign policy.