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THE ESSENTIAL

  • The electoral campaign for the first round ends tonight at midnight.

  • In the latest polls, Emmanuel Macron is still given the lead with 26% of voting intentions, ahead of Marine Le Pen's 22%.

    But the gap narrows for the second round.

  • While abstention could exceed the record of 28.4% set in 2002, the candidates implore citizens to go and vote.

    Snapchat and the government have also partnered to "get young people" moving.

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8:14 a.m.: You have a new message

"Hello, this is Eric Zemmour."

The automatic message left on the answering machine of many French people by the team of the far-right candidate questions its legality.

Valérie Pécresse also went there with her SMS and voice messages.

Is all this allowed?

Our journalist Xavier Regnier takes stock.

Telephone canvassing for the presidential election, is it legal?

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8:02 a.m .: Facing Le Pen, “the republican front will not be enough” according to Gilles Finchelstein

In an interview with AFP, the director of the Jean Jaurès Foundation believes that the spring of the "republican front" is "eroded", and that the change in Marine Le Pen's image could make this lever ineffective in the second round against to Emmanuel Macron, rejected by part of the left.

7:46 am: Saturday marches for the climate

Dozens of "Marches for the future" are announced on Saturday in France at the initiative of environmental, anti-racist, feminist and anti-precarious organizations and collectives, in order to mobilize people to vote on the eve of the first round of the presidential election.

The initiative is apolitical, said representatives of organizing associations, during a press conference as a prelude Tuesday in Paris.

The objective of this mobilization is twofold.

"Call to vote massively for the ecological and social transition", and "call to build the balance of power at the end of the second round", explained Gabriel Mazzolini, Friends of the Earth.

It is a question of “telling the elected candidate that we will be there for the rest.

April 9 is only the first step, “said Pauline Baron, from the feminist collective #NousToutes.

7:35 a.m.: Macron and Le Pen on morning shows

To make the most of the last minutes of speaking time, Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen are going to morning radio this morning: at RTL for the first, on France Info from Perpignan for the second.

Hello and welcome to this live!

Here we are, home straight for the candidates and their teams, last attempts to convince.

From this evening, they will be forced into silence until the results Sunday at 8 p.m.

In the meantime, experience this last day of the campaign with us!

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