Polls opened across France Sunday for the first round of the country’s presidential election, where up to 48 million eligible voters will be choosing between 12 candidates. They could drive many voters Sunday into the arms of far-right leader Marine Le Pen, Macron’s political nemesis. Macron trounced Le Pen by a landslide to become France’s youngest president in 2017. With war singeing the EU’s eastern edge, French voters will be casting ballots in a presidential election whose outcome will have international implications. A French voter passes identification posters on his way to vote in the first round of the 2022 French presidential election, in Montreal, on Saturday.

Source: CBC News April 10, 2022 07:43 UTC