Posted on 04/05/2017 5:59:06 AM PDT by Spiridon
French far-right leader Marine Le Pen was attacked from all sides over Europe as presidential candidates went head to head in the second live TV debate.
The centrist candidate Emmanuel Mscron said Ms. Le Pen's nationalist proposals amounted to "economic warfare".....
Ms. Le Pen, leader of the National Front Party, promised to restore control of France's borders and scrap the euro, or else hold a referendum on EU membership....
Ms. Le Pen, who also came under attack from conservative candidate Mr. Fillon, retorted: "You shouldn't pretend to be something new when you are speaking like fossils that are least 50 years old.".....
Turning to the topic of security, Ms. Le Pen said that France had become a "university for jihadists", prompting angry interruptions from the left-wing candidates......
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
How skewed are they just like were with Donald Trump in this country last fall?
Macron is not a centrist.
That is a lie. He is a socialist, handpicked by Hollande to perpetrate a fraud on the french electorate through re-branding.
He is a dedicated leftist.
I just don’t see a path to 270 for her.
Yeah, a poll is always a arbitrary sort of a thing, a soft rubber micrometer.
Exactly. The BBC has the candidates characterized as the “centrist” (who is a Socialist), the “conservative” (who would be a moderate Democrat in the US) and the “extreme nutjob” (who is advocating several significant policies that any sane country would follow).
A ‘former banker’, the typical business elite type like Michael Bloomberg would be in our country.
They always attack the front runner.
Yes, you’re on target there. Remember the Trump debates?
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