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French election: Far-right Le Pen closes in on Macron - BBC Newsnight
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5:38Now PlayingPresident Macron's lead in the polls has shrunk as Sunday's firstround of voting approaches. Please subscribe HERE
Voters in France go to the polls on Sunday in the first round of the presidential election.
Emmanuel Macron is aiming to win a second term, but polls suggest a Marine Le Pen victory is within the margin of error.
Another far-right candidate Eric Zemmour is said to have given Le Pen a boost.
Le Pen has won over some traditional right-wing voters who once saw her as too extreme, and her party tainted with the toxic attitudes of its past.
Newsnight’s David Grossman reports from Marseilles.
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