Around 30,000 police will be deployed in France late on Sunday after the parliamentary election run-off to ensure there are no security problems, "Reuters" reports., "Reuters" reports, quoted by News.bg.
Sunday's second round will determine whether the far-right "National Rally" Marine Le Pen's National Front (NF) will secure a parliamentary majority for the first time and form the next government in France, the eurozone's second-largest economy.
The campaign was marred by political tension, but also by some violence, with government spokeswoman Prisca Thévenot saying that she and her team were attacked by a small group of youths on Wednesday evening while they were putting up campaign posters.
Although Thévenot herself was not injured, her deputy and a party activist were injured by an unidentified group of about 10 youths who were defacing campaign posters, Thévenot told Le Parisien newspaper.
The candidate for the National Front in Savoie, Marie Douchy, also said she was attacked by a vendor at a market in Wednesday.
Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin said four people have been arrested in connection with the attack on Thivenot's team.
Darmanin said he would be "very careful" regarding security on Sunday night, when the election results are announced.
About 5,000 of the 30,000 police officers deployed tonight will be deployed in and around Paris to "ensure that the radical right and the radical left do not take advantage of the situation to cause chaos," he told France 2 television.
A poll on Wednesday showed that the efforts of the main parties to block the far right from reaching an absolute majority could work.
A Harris Interactive poll for Challenges magazine showed that the anti-immigration, Eurosceptic NA and its allies would win just 190 to 220 seats in the 577-seat assembly, while the center-right Republicans (LR) would win 30 to 50 seats. That could rule out the possibility of a far-right minority government supported by part of the LR parliamentary group.