French voters are voting today in the first round of their presidential election - the most contentious and meaningful in decades. National Front candidate Marine Le Pen is expected to do well, and may perhaps win 50% or more, avoiding a run-off election with her 10 other opponents. She, along with many of the other candidates, have campaigned against the European Union, and she vows to pull out of the Euro currency, a "Frexit" that would follow the pattern of the British "Brexit."
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