One in four won’t vote

ABOUT one quarter of voters in France’s presidential race plan to abstain rather than vote for centrist frontrunner Emmanuel Macron or farright candidate Marine Le Pen.

Seven in 10 voters are unhappy with the choice, a survey found, as France heads into uncharted waters with the traditional right and left absent from the second round for the first time since 1958. The dilemma is expressed as a choice “between the plague and cholera” at protest marches.