France's elections pit centrist president, Emmanuel Macron, against resurgent nationalist

Marine Le Pen, Boris Johnson heads to Kiev, and two men accused of trying to kidnap,

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to the center. There was actually another candidate named Eric Zemore who was actually outflanking her

on the right in this particular election cycle. The way that France's elections work, they have a

first round of presidential elections. If nobody breaks 50%, the top two candidates then run against one another.

And this is actually a repeat of the 2017 French elections in which it was indeed Macron against Marine Le Pen. In the first round of those elections, it was very close. There were some polling showing that in the second round, it would be a lot closer. In the second round, Le Pen just got blown out by Macron, Macron, then ended up winning something like 66 to 33 in that second round of the elections. The polling this time shows that in a second round

election, a final round election between Macron and Le Pen, the race is a lot closer. It looks more

like 51 to 47 or 50 to 48. According to the Wall Street Journal, McCrone and Le Pen led the first

round of France's presidential election, according to projections, setting the stage very closely

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