Marine Le Pen

France went to the polls on May 7 to choose between centrist Emmanuel Macron and far-right leader Marine Le Pen for president, in a watershed election both for the divided country and the future of Europe.
 

French voters went to the polls on May 7 to pick a new president, choosing between young centrist Emmanuel Macron and far-right leader Marine Le Pen in a watershed election for the country and Europe.

Polls opened in France's presidential election on Sunday, with voters choosing between young centrist Emmanuel Macron and far-right leader Marine Le Pen in a watershed vote for the country and Europe, reported AFP.

Voters across France were choosing a new president Sunday in an unusually tense and important election that could decide Europe’s future, making a stark choice between pro-business independent Emmanuel Macron and far-right populist Marine Le Pen.

Only a day before 47.5 million French citizens go to the ballots to elect the President of the 5th Republic of France between far-right candidate Marine LePen of the National Front party and front runner Emmanuel Macron of the En Marche party, both politicians are handing out promises to the electorate. One of the promisees made by Mr.

"In 1984, Jean-Marie Le Pen said something that heralded what is happening today. He spoke of the 'Le Pen-ization' of conscience," French-Algerian writer Karim Amellal told Skai TV's "Istories" program on Tuesday while describing precisely how things came to be.

Centrist French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron extended his lead in the polls over his far-right rival Marine Le Pen on May 5, only two days before the county's most important election for decades with two diametrically opposed views of Europe and France's place in the world being at stake.

French centrist Emmanuel Macron and his far-right presidential rival Marine Le Pen clashed over terrorism, the economy and Europe on May 3 in a bad-tempered TV debate that laid bare their profoundly different visions for the country. The duel ahead of May 7's election was billed as a confrontation between Macron's call for openness and pro-market reforms and Le Pen's France-first nationalism.

French centrist Emmanuel Macron and his far-right presidential rival Marine Le Pen clashed over terrorism, the economy and Europe on May 3 in a bad-tempered TV debate that laid bare their profoundly different visions for the country. The duel ahead of May 7's election was billed as a confrontation between Macron's call for openness and pro-market reforms and Le Pen's France-first nationalism.

Things got quite heated between Marine Le Pen and Emmanuel Macron during tonight’s televised head-to-head presidential debate.

CNN reports that Le Pen opened the debate by immediately skewering Macron – a centrist – as a “cold banker” that would raise unemployment levels and allow elites to “plunder” the economy.