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Final showdown between Marine and Macron before last round
The final debate in the French presidential elections between nationalist Marine Le Pen and the globalist Emmanuel Macron ended last night with a wider ideological rift opening.
Published: May 4, 2017, 9:40 am
Paris
Le Pen is trailing the former Rothschild banker 41 percent to 59 percent, according to the latest polls, with some 15 percent of voters undecided.
Macron’s efforts to isolate Le Pen collapsed, even though he was constantly on the attack: “You are telling lies,” “You are telling huge lies,” “You are talking rot,” “You have no solutions to propose,” “You are unfit to lead,” “You are the high priestess of fear,” “Let me analyse the foolishness you have just been spouting,” “You are a menace to the institutions of France,” “What nourishes you and nourished your father is fear and lies.”
Le Pen landed a knockout with her remarks on Merkel. “Whoever wins this election, France will be run by a woman—either by me or by Mrs. Merkel,” she said.
“You are on your knees before Germany, Europe, business interests, the banks—you are the candidate perpetually on his knees” Le Pen added.
The left is unlikely to vote Macron because he promotes deregulation and free markets. The National Front candidate emphasised the need for France to regain its sovereignty from the European Union and from international agreements.
Marine noted that her opponent never once mentioned Islamic terrorism, because, she repeatedly pointed out, Islamic organisations have supported Macron. She said she would reestablish borders, expel all Muslim fundamentalists, close all Salafist mosques, strip certain dual citizens of French nationality and expel them, deport criminal foreigners who have served their sentences, and stop letting Saudi Arabia and Qatar fund Islamic centers.
“We must eradicate the ideology of Islamic fundamentalism in France,” said Le Pen, “and you will not do that because the Islamists support you. And that will be a terrible price for France to pay.”
Macron said that France was, at least in part, to blame for terrorism, because children of immigrants, born and reared in France become terrorists. He said that this is because some are mentally ill but also because France has not succeeded in being a country in which everyone feels welcome. Only by becoming a multicultural society would France win the respect of migrants, Macron said.
But Le Pen pointed out that when Macron visited Algeria, he said that France committed crimes against humanity during the Algerian revolution. “Don’t you realise,” she asked, “that when young people hear this, they are encouraged to hate France to seek revenge? You are constantly compromising with radical Islam, and France will have to pay the price.”
Unsurprisingly Macron accused Le Pen of being a lackey of Vladimir Putin, but she said that there was no reason for a cold war with Russia. She argued that as the world becomes more nationalist, she will be better able to understand foreign affairs. She insisted on the advantages for France gaining freedom of action on the world stage.
A snap poll taken immediately afterwards found that 64 percent of respondents found Macron’s performance more persuasive because of his contemptuous tone, but Alain Soral, an analyst of French affairs, said he has not been able to find even one voter who supported Macron in the first round despite his winning votes. Elabe pollsters for BFM TV found Macron more convincing in the debate than Le Pen.
Soral said however he did not trust polls showing Macron winning.
An opinion poll by a French daily, Le Figaro, suggested a similar result, with 64 percent of 24 300 respondents saying Macron projected a stronger image, and 36 percent siding with Le Pen.
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