As French voters voters head into the Sunday s run-off presidential election, far-right leader Marine Le Pen is banking on riding a surge in French nationalism to become the first woman in the Élysée Palace. Le Pen, 53, whose rhetoric has at times been compared to that of former President Donald Trump, has cast herself as the common people s choice and adopted a French-first policy on foreign affairs, focusing more instead on domestic issues such as the rising cost of living in her campaign.