French election polls: who is leading the race to be the next president of France?

Emmanuel Macron and the far-right hopeful Marine Le Pen are among 12 candidates in the French presidential election. We look at the latest polling, and introduce some of the candidates

France will vote to elect a new president in April, and the final list of candidates consists of twelve competitors, chief among them the Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen.

The current president, Emmanuel Macron, declared earlier this month that he intends to run for a second term. His second-round opponent from 2017, the far-right Marine Le Pen, had already launched her campaign.