Macron leads Le Pen slightly in tightening French election - Harris poll

A man walks past campaign posters of candidates Jean-Luc Melenchon of the Parti de Gauche and Emmanuel Macron head of the political movement En Marche! (Onwards!), two of the eleven candidates who run in the 2017 French presidential election in Paris, France, April 5, 2017. REUTERS/Gonzalo Fuentes

PARIS, (Reuters) - France's presidential race is tightening in its final weeks with a far-left and a conservative candidate narrowing the gap on long-time frontrunners Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen, two polls showed on Friday.

An Odoxa poll for Le Point magazine showed 23.5 percent of voters set to back centrist Macron in the April 23 first round, a fall of 2.5 percentage points in a week.