The Latest: First candidates cast vote in French election

A pet waits for its owner outside a polling station in Meudon, near Paris, France, Sunday, April 23, 2017. French voters are casting ballots for their next president in an unusually close first-round election Sunday, after a campaign dominated by concerns about jobs and immigration and clouded by security fears following a recent attack on police guarding the Champs-Elysees in Paris. (AP Photo/Bertrand Combaldieu) A pet waits for its owner outside a polling station in Meudon, near Paris, France, Sunday, April 23, 2017. French voters are casting ballots for their next president in an unusually close first-round election Sunday, after a campaign dominated by concerns about jobs and immigration and clouded by security fears following a recent attack on police guarding the Champs-Elysees in Paris. (AP Photo/Bertrand Combaldieu)

By Associated Press April 23, 2017 2 min read

PARIS (AP) – The Latest on the first round of France’s presidential election (all times local):

9:30 a.m.

Candidates in France’s presidential election have started to cast their votes.

Hardline right-winger Nicolas Dupont-Aignan, who rails against Europe, was the first of the 11 presidential candidates to vote Sunday morning in his constituency in the leafy Paris suburbs.

Far-left candidate Natalie Arthaud cast her ballot soon after in the Paris suburb of Pantin.