Percentage Points: Economy Borders and Opponent Marine

percentage points: Polls predict that Macron, a former economy minister, will win the May 7 runoff with about 59-60 percent, according to The Japan Times. But the momentum has recently been with Le Pen, who has clawed back about 5 percentage points over the past week. The Ifop survey for the Journal du Dimanche highlights two key battlegrounds as centrist presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron and far-right opponent Marine Le Pen enter a final week of campaigning France's economy and borders. According to the Ifop poll, 45 percent of voters believe the two finalists will not put an end to unemployment, which has for years stood close to 10 percent in France. France has been under a state of emergency since 2015 and has suffered a spate of Islamist militant attacks, mostly perpetrated by young men who grew up in France and Belgium. And 36 percent say neither candidate will be able to protect France from attacks. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.