Marine Le Pen’s National Rally is trying to outmaneuver rivals that are pulling out well-worn tricks to keep the far-right out of power in the final round of legislative elections on Sunday.
In what has become something of a French game of chess, the opposition to Le Pen — President Emmanuel Macron’s centrist group and a left-leaning alliance — is racing to coalesce and pull out candidates to shut her own people out.
She, in turn, is trying to court supporters to back her.