French election: Macron and Le Pen trade taunts as campaigning ends

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Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen make bitter attacks on each other ahead of Sunday's election.

The two candidates fighting for the French presidency have launched bitter attacks on each other in a final bid to win over millions of undecided voters before Sunday's election.

He invoked the UK's vote to leave the EU and the presidency of Donald Trump in a TV appeal to voters. "There are millions of people who, a few hours before Brexit, decided what was the point in going to vote. Millions did the same in 2016 with Trump. The next day they woke up with a hangover," he said.Marine Le Pen's message was that the choice was either Macron or France

The dissatisfaction with Mr Macron's brand of centrism and with mainstream politics was laid bare in the first round, when well over half the electorate backed the far right or far left.

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