Responding to a tweet from President Donald Trump, WikiLeaks pointed out that the Obama administration ordered the CIA to hack Marine Le Pen and other candidates during the French election in 2012. In response, WikiLeaks noted that his presidential campaign wasn't the first one to be targeted, as "Obama already did it to the French."
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban is betting that his relentless campaign against migration will keep his voter base united and motivated for Sunday's national election. Since 400,000 people passed through Hungary in 2015 on their way to Western Europe, Orban has made migration the near-exclusive focus of his government.
The 2017 presidential campaign in France has been full of surprises , from FranA ois Hollande's decision not to run for a second term to former prime minister Manuel Valls getting defeated in the Socialist Party primary; from the rise of insider-outsider Emmanuel Macron to the standout debate performance by far-left candidate Philippe Poutou; from FranA ois Fillon's rise, fall, and rise to Jean-Luc MA lenchon's last-minute surge . All the twists and turns have increased the uncertainty of an election that was up in the air from the start.