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"You have given gifts to those who are the richest and you have crushed those who were the poorest," says French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen, as she is quizzed by an activist from Emmanuel Macron's En Marche party in the Calvados region, on the financing of her social reform projects. IMAGES
"France is as one through its history", said Emmanuel Macron in Figeac, Lot, on the last day of the official campaign. The French President-candidate refuses "to choose between the city and the countryside". SOUNDBITE
French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal meets the people of La Rochelle after presiding over a ceremony to commemorate the abolition of slavery and at a time when he is campaigning for the European elections. IMAGES
Nicolas Sarkozy is back at Paris Court House this Friday to answer questions in his appeal trial about illegal campaign financing during his 2012 failed re-election bid. The Former head of state was sentenced to one year's imprisonment in 2021 in what has been dubbed the "Bygmalion case". Conservative Sarkozy has faced a litany of legal problems since his one term in office from 2007 until 2012, and has been charged separately with corruption, bribery, influence-peddling, and breaking campaign financing laws. IMAGES
French President Emmanuel Macron meets the Ivory Coast President, Alassane Ouattara, for a working lunch at the Élysée Palace. IMAGES