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"There are roughly 49.5 million registered voters who will be coming to polling stations today in France", said FRANCE24 journalist Liza Kaminov, reporting from Saint Denis, a commune just north of Paris. "It's traditionally home to a lot of working-class families and also a place with the highest rate of abstention in the last presidential elections- around 60.6% of people here abstained," she added.