Le Pen and Macron clash in crucial French election debate
Source: BBC News
The two contenders for the French presidency traded insults in a fiery head to head TV debate, in a key moment of a long and bitter campaign.
Centrist Emmanuel Macron said his far-right rival Marine Le Pen's strategy "is to lie," while she called him a shameless "darling of the system."
Macron is well ahead in the polls, although his lead has been reduced. The aim of both candidates is to win over the estimated 18% of undecided voters ahead of Sunday's election.
The debate was heated for most of its 160 minutes, with both candidates throwing personal insults at each other.
Le Pen called her 39-year-old rival "the candidate of savage globalisation," happy to sell off France's assets and relinquish control of the country. Macron, in turn, accused the 48-year-old leader of the National Front (FN) of being "the high priestess of fear," saying she talked a lot but "proposed nothing."
For the first time, neither candidate is from a mainstream French party.
Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-39791175
Pass the croissants!
2naSalit
(86,528 posts)tenorly
(2,037 posts)French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron was more impressive than rival Marine Le Pen in Wednesday evening's final TV debate, a viewers' poll says.
The candidates traded insults for more than two hours, arguing over terrorism, the economy, and Europe.
The French broadcaster BFMTV found voters had a more favourable view of Mr Macron than Ms Le Pen in most categories.
He was the "most convincing" of the pair in the opinion of 63% of viewers.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-39801315
I do hope Le Pen loses again.
tenorly
(2,037 posts)Having the last word is très important in France.
2naSalit
(86,528 posts)The culture is interesting in that way. i like to watch what happens there, but I done focus on it much given our current nightmare from which I have yet to waken. It's hard to focus on much else.
tenorly
(2,037 posts)Le Pen is a clown in a kid's birthday party compared to the clear and present danger of a president we have now.
C'est la vie, I guess.
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,580 posts)tenorly
(2,037 posts)She's not above paying some desperate North African to stage something violent on the eve of the election - to say nothing of some of the thugs around her.
Pooties' thugs.
tenorly
(2,037 posts)Thanks for reminding me.
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