France faces bruising runoff after Macron and Le Pen top first-round vote

Projected results in first part of presidential race put centrist leader on 28.5% and far-right candidate on 23.6%

France election: calls begin for voters to block far-right Le Pen

France faces a brutal two-week campaign over the country’s future, as the centrist incumbent, Emmanuel Macron, faces the far-right Marine Le Pen for the presidency, positioning himself as a pro-European “progressive” against what he calls her anti-Muslim, nationalist programme and “complacency” about Vladimir Putin.

Macron topped Sunday’s first round of the French presidential election with 28.5% of the vote, ahead of Le Pen’s 23.6%, according to initial projected results.

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