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Can Macron claw hostile electorate back from Le Pen?

Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen went in opposite directions this week in an attempt to drum up support from new voters they need to win the final round of France’s presidential election on 24 April.

On Monday Macron headed north, where he spent several hours talking to crowds at Denain, a former mining town once controlled by socialists but now a far-right stronghold, and promised he would listen to candidates “who failed to qualify” in last weekend’s first round of the election. Le

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