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
cartoon showing LePen fans chasing after her
French chicken losing feathers
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