London (AFP)

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his Labor opponent Jeremy Corbyn enter Monday in the final stretch before Thursday's early elections, whose decisive outcome for Brexit will chart the path of the UK for decades to come.

When he came to power in July, the conservative leader bets to convene these legislative elections to implement the exit of the European Union, for which the British voted 52% three and a half years ago but who plunged the country in a deep political crisis.

Although the polls are at the top of the polls, the turbulent political climate is making the outcome uncertain and the polls are expected to be tight in many constituencies, pushing parties to redouble their efforts in the final days of the campaign.

After promising Sunday to "fight for every vote", Boris Johnson must campaign on Monday in the north of the country, to repeat that the only way to achieve Brexit is to opt for a conservative majority. It remains "three days to break the deadlock," he said in a speech in Sunderland, a city that houses a giant factory of Japanese automaker Nissan, according to extracts released by his services.

"The impact of this election will be felt for decades to come," he said in an open letter published by the Sunday Telegraph.

Boris Johnson hopes to win the majority that he lacked to be able to pass through Parliament the Brexit agreement he negotiated with Brussels. The 55-year-old conservative leader promises that after three postponements of Brexit, the United Kingdom will leave the European Union on 31 January.

- Fractures -

Her predecessor, Theresa May, who also bets to call elections in 2017 to establish her legitimacy, was also given the lead in polls until the end of the campaign. She had not finally won an absolute majority in the House of Commons, plunging her country even further into the crisis.

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Facing him, Labor Party leader Jeremy Corbyn, a 70-year-old socialist veteran far more left than his predecessors, is leading a radical campaign, promising nationalization and massive investment in public services.

To heal the fractures that have shaken the country for three years, he wants to renegotiate an exit agreement from the European Union that would maintain close ties with the 27, which he would submit to a new referendum proposing as an alternative the retention in the EU . A position that is worth criticizing for its lack of clarity.

But with a liberal-democratic party whose promise to cancel Brexit altogether provokes, according to the polls, very little enthusiasm, the Labor vote may appear for many as the only one likely to help prevent the United Kingdom to leave the European Union.

- Alliance -

The "leave" camp is behind Johnson, who on Thursday received the rally of four Euro MPs from the Brexit party of the europhobe Nigel Farage, seeing the Conservative vote as the only way to rule out keeping in the party. European Union.

Despite his delay in the polls, hopes of Jeremy Corbyn remain. If the Conservatives fail to win a majority, the Labor leader could win the keys to 10 Downing Street with an alliance with the Scottish independence movement SNP, fiercely opposed to Brexit.

The campaign has resurfaced accusations of anti-Semitism in Labor, to the point that according to the Daily Mail, the center Simon Wiesenthal Sunday appointed Jeremy Corbyn as the most anti-Semitic person of the year, warning that the United Kingdom would become a state "pariah" if he won the elections.

Last month, the chief rabbi of the United Kingdom launched a heavy charge against Corbyn and his inability to eradicate the "poison" of anti-Semitism within his party, calling on voters to "vote in conscience".

In a campaign marked, as in 2017, by a deadly jihadist attack in London Bridge, the father of one of the two victims blamed Boris Johnson for campaigning on the death of his son, who is engaged in reintegrating the detainees. In a series of tweets, David Merrit called on the UK to "wake up": "this man is a scam, he's the worst of us and he walks you around".

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