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French elections: Tough competition expected between Macron and Le Pen    

PARIS (May 7, 2017): The second phase of the French presidential elections will be held today amid strict security and a tough competition is expected between Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen.

Whereas En Marche’s presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron alleged that democracy has been hacked in France just like United States. He said that his campaign’s above 70,000 documents and e-mails have been hacked.

According to the details the document dump happened Friday night, less than 48 hours before the country votes in the final round of the presidential election, which pits the independent centrist Macron against the far-right Marine Le Pen.

The files were released just before 2 p.m. Friday, around four hours before the election campaign period officially closed with its restrictions on campaigning, reporting and polling. These restrictions are aimed at preventing last-minute scandals from emerging and influencing the election’s outcome.

Around 14.5 gigabytes of emails, personal and business documents were posted to the text-sharing site Pastebin through links to more than 70,000 files.

Officials from Macron’s En Marche! party said in a statement that the perpetrators of the hack had mixed fake documents with authentic ones “to create confusion and misinformation.”

French President Francois Hollande vowed to take revenge from the hackers.  While Moscow ruled out any interference in French presidential elections citing that Russia do not interfere in the democratic system of any other country.

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