France’s latest presidential race between Macron and Le Pen

Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen will start the last week of the campaign today, which will see a very important televised debate for the two candidates ahead of their final showdown in the second round of the French presidential election on April 24. In the week leading up to the second round of the election, he has decided nothing, although recent polls have shown the outgoing president winning between 53% and 55.5% of his far-right rival, sharper competition than in 2017, when Macron was elected president. France with 66% of the vote. The task of the second round is to convince the waverers and abstentions, whose percentage in the first round exceeded 26%, and to mobilize left-wing voters to judge this fierce duel. In the final week of the campaign, which begins before the pre-election silence on Friday and the vote on Sunday, it looks like Wednesday’s televised debate will be decisive.