French elections

Russia has repeatedly denied interfering in the French election by hacking and leaking emails and documents

Election is set to send shockwaves through the older parties

His newly renamed grassroots movement revealed 428 out of 577 candidates for the parliamentary polls

Macron, a former economy minister, has proposed an ambitious domestic reform agenda

'If Mr Macron should stumble, it is altogether unclear what solution might keep Ms Le Pen at bay in 2022'

He's 39, she's 64

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Estimates show Macron winning between 65.5% of ballots ahead of Le Pen on 33.9%

Forecasts proved to be accurate for the presidential election's first round last month

Fillon had quoted from World War I prime minister Georges Clemenceau and writer Andre Malraux

Support for Le Pen and her populist agenda is likely to influence forthcoming governments’ actions and policies

Latest poll suggests Macron will defeat Le Pen by a margin of 21 points in the runoff on May 7

French vote was being closely watched as a bell-wether for populist sentiment following US election and Brexit

France is voting in one of the closest elections in decades

Weapons and militants propaganda found, says prosecutor

Le Pen invoked her parliamentary immunity in refusing to attend questioning by investigating magistrates

Police source said the cause of the fire was 'not natural and probably criminal'

The employment of family members by politicians has become a hot-button issues in the French presidential election

Five members of the European parliament from the Republicans withdrew their support

Twenty-six people were arrested and some police officers fired shots in the air after finding themselves cornered

An opinion poll showed Fillon, hitherto the frontunner in the election, would be eliminated from its crucial runoff.

The socialist government imposed the state of emergency in November 2015