At meat market, the far-right Le Pen backs “eating French”

Le Pen, 48, is fighting her second presidential campaign after coming in third in 2012 while Macron, a 39-year-old former investment banker and economy minister, is fighting his first, having never held elected office. The way the worldwide media are portraying this Macron is a centrist.

Reaction to France’s first round of voting was swift. Two other French police officers were allegedly wounded during the attack before the attacker, reportedly inspired and affiliated with ISIS, was shot and killed by police.

During his address, Hollande claimed the purchasing power of the French people would be directly hit if Le Pen won the run-off vote on 7 May – with “unprecedented price increases” in stores and thousands of jobs being lost.

At the crack of dawn on Tuesday she was at the sprawling Rungis food market outside Paris, taking aim at what she said was Macron’s desire for “total deregulation, total opening up, total free trade”.

He was frequently accused of making xenophobic and anti-Semitic statements and Ms Le Pen expelled him from the party in 2015.

President Hollande joined in on Tuesday, telling Macron that “a vote is earned, it’s fought for” and that no one should think Le Pen’s defeat was a “done deal”. Overall, Le Pen’s anti-European Union, NATO-skeptical, pro-Russian, anti-immigrant, populist approach is a sop, but not a solution, to the challenges facing France in this globalized era.

Very few voters who backed Mélenchon and conservative François Fillon, the other candidate Le Pen needs to pull voters from, have said they would back Le Pen over Macron in the second round.

Far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen says there could be a “very big surprise” when the French cast their ballots May 7 in the final round to choose a new leader, and she wins.

“It seemed essential to me to take leave of the presidency of the FN”. “I will be above the partisan considerations – it is an important act”.

Support for Macron also poured in Monday from the seat of the European Union, as well as German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Jewish and Muslim groups troubled by Le Pen’s nationalist vision.

French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron came in for a rough reception on Wednesday from striking workers during a visit to a Whirlpool factory in northern France.

So far, not a single rival party has called for its voters to support her.

French centrist presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron, speaks to journalists after a visit at the Raymond Poincare hospital in Garches, outside Paris, France, Tuesday, April 25, 2017. France, like most Western European nations, has seen astonishing levels of immigration from Africa and the Middle East, resulting in rampant crime, rioting, and unrest while the traditional French population is replaced with foreigners.

There are now around 123,000 French nationals in Switzerland.

The rebranding speaks to an eerie convergence of the far-right and far-left in a country that has booted its mainstream parties from the presidential race for the first time in modern history.

Meanwhile, life expectancy for women tends to run almost five years shorter than the average 85.2 in departments where Le Pen scored high and almost three years lower than the average male expectancy of 79.1.