 Hello and welcome to NewsHour from the BBC World Service coming live from London. This is Owen Bennett-Jones and I'm in London but we're going straight to France because James Kumarasami is there for the elections. Yes, that's right, Owen. It is actually a pre-election day of silence here in France. Cue the siren outside. No rallies, no campaigning allowed. A day for voters and candidates to contemplate tomorrow's choices in what is the decisive round of the parliamentary election. And those choices are big.