Far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen said today she believes she can pull off a surprise victory in France"s high-stakes runoff tomorrow, while independent front-runner Emmanuel Macron suffered a document leak that his team called a bid to throw the vote.
In an interview with The Associated Press in the final hours of a hostile, topsy-turvy campaign, Mrs Le Pen said that win or lose, "we changed everything."
She claimed an "ideological victory" for her populist, anti-immigrant worldview in an election that could change Europe"s direction.
Mr Macron"s political movement said today it has been the victim of a "massive and coordinated" hacking attack that led to the leak of campaign emails and financial documents.
In a statement, the En Marche movement said it was hacked a few weeks ago, and that the leaked documents have been mixed with false documents to "seed doubt and disinformation" and destabilize tomorrow"s presidential runoff.
Fears of hacking, fake news manipulation and Russian meddling clouded the French campaign but had largely gone unrealised, until today"s admission by Mr Macron"s campaign that it had suffered an online pirate attack.
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