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As runner-up in last Sunday’s opening ballot, Le Pen remains the underdog going into the run-off, but several polls have suggested she made a more impressive start to the last lap of campaigning than her rival Emmanuel Macron. 

Following Britain’s vote to leave the European Union, Le Pen wants to hold a referendum on France’s EU membership after six months of negotiations to turn the bloc into a loose cooperative of nations.

 Asked whether a Le Pen victory would mean the end of the EU, Germany’s Europe Minister Michael Roth told Reuters, “It would be the end of the EU as we know it. “I don’t want to speculate but of course this would have massive consequences for a united Europe,” he said. 

“It would be a clear signal that things cannot go on as they are.” An opinion poll on Friday showed Macron beating Le Pen by 60 percent to 40 percent in the run-off vote.

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