Emmanuel Macron maintains a six point poll lead over Marine Le Pen, the far-right challenger in the French presidential election, after a heated television debate last night.
The election campaign is in its final days and both candidates have returned to the campaign trail to drum up what support they can before the vote on Sunday.
Mr Macron, the cosmopolitan, is visiting the multicultural Saint Denis suburb of Paris while Ms Le Pen, who positions herself as a voice of the neglected working class, is in the northern industrial region of Hauts-de-France.
Leaders of fellow Schengen nations Germany, Spain and Portugal backed Mr Macron today, urging the French people not to vote for his nationalist opponent.
Ms Le Pen, at a rally in the city of Arras, accused Mr Macron of “unlimited arrogance” in both last night’s debate and the five years of his presidency.
She framed the president as soft on immigration and security and called his economic record – hurt by the pandemic and Ukraine war – “catastrophic.”
