French election anxiety is perhaps best expressed in cartoons

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cartoon of ISIS militants putting up Marine LePen poster

A terror attack in Paris nearly on the eve of France's presidential election has political prognosticators even more flummoxed than before.

Could it propel extreme right-wing candidate Marine Le Pen to victory? Or will it mobilize disaffected voters to get to the polls for Sunday's first round of voting to keep an anti-immigrant, anti-EU candidate in check?

Cartoonists from across Europe have already weighed in. Here's our selection of their best work.

cartoon showing an IS terrorist voting in French election
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cartoon showing LePen fans chasing after her
French chicken losing feathers
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