After a bruising campaign overshadowed by scandals and the fear of terrorism, France will choose a new president on Sunday with the centrist former banker Emmanuel Macron the clear favourite to defeat the far-right Marine Le Pen.Voting will take place under strict security similar to the operation mounted for the first round of voting on April 23, when more than 50,000 police officers, gendarmes and soldiers guarded 66,000 polling stations.
As a mark of France’s constant state of alert, police have arrested several people suspected of planning terrorist acts in recent weeks. A state of emergency declared after the Paris massacre …read more
Source: The National
