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Anger will 'explode' after election says Le Pen as Macron surges ahead

 Le Pen received a hostile reception at her final campaign stop in Reims cathedral as polls show her likely share of the vote falling below 40%.

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Anger in France will "explode" after the presidential election, Marine Le Pen has warned  as frontrunner Emmanuel Macron surged in the polls on the last day of most acrimonious campaign in the country's history, reports The Telegraph.

With victory seemingly within his grasp, Mr Macron said he had already picked his prime minister should he win on Sunday.

Ms Le Pen, 48, has been on the back foot after what was viewed - even within her camp - as a disastrous TV debate on Wednesday against her centrist rival in which she came across as angry, vindictive and unclear.

A string of polls suggest Mr Macron, 39, had extended his lead by up to four percentage points since the pair clashed in Wednesday's ferocious face-off. These put the leader of his fledgling En Marche! (Onwards) movement on 62 4 per cent in voter intentions compared to 36-38 per cent for the far-Right candidate.

Ms Le Pen received a hostile reception at her final campaign stop in Reims cathedral with her ally Nicolas Dupont-Aignan as militants chanted "Marine, give the money back". She has refused to answer French investigators questions in a probe into whether she misused European parliamentary funds to pay party members. 

Ms Le Pen fired off an angry Tweet afterwards accusing Macron supporters of "violence" and a lack of "dignity" in a sacred place.

Her centrist rival had no such trouble when he visited another cathedral in Rodez, southwestern France and mingled with locals.

Greenpeace, meanwhile pulled off a daring stunt in central Paris, attaching a giant banner to the Eiffel Tower urging voters to "resist" Ms Le Pen and leaving police to admit security "flaws" at a time when terror fears remain high.

Read more of this report from The Telegraph.