Team Macron vs. Team Le Pen
Two groups of aides are preparing to take charge of France.
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Behind the two candidates going head to head in the runoff for the French presidency are teams of advisers whose careers will also hinge on the outcome.
While one group will be returning to their day jobs after the results on Sunday night, the other will soon be running the euro area’s second-biggest economy and taking decisions that will affect hundreds of billions of dollars in global trade from energy to finance and defense.