<span style="color: #222222;">In France, voting is being held to decide whether pro-European Union, centrist President Emmanuel Macron keeps his job or be unseated by far-right eurosceptic Marine Le Pen.<br />'' <br />'' 44-year-old Macron topped the first round of the election on April 10 with 27.8 percent of votes cast. The pro-European incumbent is aiming to become the first president to win re-election since Jacques Chirac in 2002.<br />'' <br />'' Le Pen, who took 23.1 percent of the first-round vote, is making her third run for the presidency. The 53-year-old nationalist leader is hoping to become the first woman to hold the job.<br />'' <br />'' If Macron wins, he will become the first sitting president to win re-election in 20 years.<br />'' <br />''The French presidential election is a direct voting process conducted in two phases. In the first phase, voters whittle down a long list of prospective candidates into two. If a candidate wins over 50 percent of the votes in the first round, he/she is elected as the president of the country. If not, as was the case this year, the second round of voting is held.</span><br />