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Fringe parties make inroads in France
While Macron tops Le Pen in round one of polls, the real runner-up is 'anyone else'
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Jason Walsh for The Straits Times in Paris
The sun beat down on the pavements of Paris on Sunday, a bright and clear, if not warm, sunny spring day much like any other. It was also the day for round one of the hotly-contested 2022 presidential election.
Hotly-contested, at least, for the media.