Gird your loins for the first round of the 2022 French election this Sunday, which will decide the final two candidates to face-off for the presidency on 24 April. All signs are pointing to a two-horse race between President Macron and Marine Le Pen, who this week has reached her highest ever polling rates. A Harris Interactive poll on Monday suggested Le Pen’s campaign had captured 48.5 per cent of voter intentions in an opinion poll of a likely second round runoff against Emmanuel Macron. Challenges, the business weekly which published the poll, added that Macron's lead still ranged between 53-47 per cent and 58-42 per cent. Emmanuel Macron versus the extreme right looks like it’s going to be a much…