France votes on diametrically opposed Macron and Le Pen

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Showdown a repeat of the 2017 election, when Macron beat Le Pen with a hefty margin of almost 33 percentage points

Nationalist Marine Le Pen smiles after casting her vote. Picture: BLOOMBERG

For the EU, Macron is holding his trademark line on strengthening European sovereignty with projects that could include more joint investment. While Le Pen no longer wants to exit the EU, her proposals to transform it into a looser alliance of nations and hold a referendum to assert the primacy of French law over its rules would undermine the bloc from within.

The French president voted around midday alongside his wife Brigitte Macron in the northern coastal town of Le Touquet, where they have a second home. Le Pen voted in Henin-Beaumont, a stronghold for her party that she represents as legislator, 120km inland from where Macron cast his ballot. Daughter of five-times far-right presidential candidate Jean-Marie Le Pen, Marine had an opportunity to close the gap during nearly three hours of live debate with Macron on Wednesday. Yet she struggled to do so, while Macron turned the spotlight on policies that echo her father’s more extremist views, such as banning the Muslim veil in all public spaces.

 

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