French election: Le Pen and Macron spar ahead of runoff

BBC News ^ | 5/1/2017 | BBC

[Spiridon]

The two rivals in France's presidential race have traded accusations at the start of the last week of campaigning.

.....Marine Le Pen lambasted pro-EU centrist Emmanuel Macron as a "candidate of continuity".

Mr. Macron said he would fight "until the last second" against Ms. Le Pen ideas "of what constitutes democracy".....

She launched a full-throttle attack on Mr. Macron, calling him a candidate of "a morbid continuity, littered with the corpses of jobs transferred offshore, the ruins of bust businesses, and the gaping holes of deficit and debt".

"Emmanuel Macron is just (current President) Francois Hollande, who wants to stay and who is hanging on to power like a barnacle," she told a rally in Villepinte, a suburb north of the capital.....

[Spiridon]

The May Day protests got rough on the streets of Paris today and the media seems to be playing it up to distract from a Marine Le Pen who's fighting for France.

Her campaign slogan is "Choose France".

She formed her alliance with DLF party and its leader Nicolas Dupont-Aignan over the weekend. Le Pen pledged to make the Gaullist Dupont-Aignan her Prime Minister if she is elected president.

[Paladin2]

Isn't "a Democracy" a fairly straight forward concept that doesn't need to be "fought".

Socialists are, at best, closet fascists?

[Spiridon]

Macron’s “Democracy” is open borders and cheap labor under the tyranny of the EUSSR, a Gulag of Big Government, Big Banks and Big Business.

A system committed to its own death by allowing the Islamic infiltration that will decay it from within.

[I want the USA back]

Macron - cops shot, trucks driven into citizens, women raped.
Le Pen - France is made great again.

[Berlin_Freeper]

Macron holds a roughly 20-point advantage, at 60 percent support to Le Pen’s 40 percent, according to BBC News’s composite of the five most recent national polls.

[Old Teufel Hunden]

He’s fighting for the rights of all students to marry their 25 + years older teachers.

In response to the polling data, LePen should be asking the audience what the accuracy of those poles were for Brexit. I saw in the article even Macron is saying that if the EU doesn’t shape up there should be a referendum on Frexit. If true, wow. That must mean that his polling is showing that the French are sick and fed up of open borders and the unelected bureaucrats in Brussels. He won’t do anything about it, but he recognizes that the French people perceive it as a problem.