Macron Henry Anderson Colts Jersey , Le Pen exchange May Day blows on day of rallies and protests
PARIS - Centrist presidential frontrunner Emmanuel Macron and his far-right rival Marine Le Pen attacked each other's visions of France and the role it should play in Europe on Monday against a background of May Day rallies and protests.


Macron sought for a third successive day to paint National Front (FN) candidate Le Pen as an extremist, while she portrayed him as a clone of unpopular outgoing Socialist President Francois Hollande, under whom he served as economy minister from 2014 to 2016.


Two opinion polls showed Macron winning what is widely seen as France's most important election in decades with between 59 and 61 percent of the vote.


On offer is a choice between his vision of closer integration with a modernized European Union and her calls to cut immigration and take the country out of the euro.


"I will fight up until the very last second not only against her programme but also her idea of what constitutes democracy and the French Republic T.J. Green Colts Jersey ," said Macron, an independent backed by a new party, En Marche! (Onwards!) Marlon Mack Colts Jersey , which he set up a year ago.


He was speaking after paying tribute to a young Moroccan man who drowned in the River Seine in Paris 22 years ago after being pushed into the water by skinheads on the fringes of a May Day rally by the FN, then led by Le Pen's father Jean-Marie.


Later, at a rally Tarell Basham Colts Jersey , he described her as "the anti-France candidate" and said "We want Europe to be strong because we want France to be strong."


He also rejected calls from leftwing politicians to drop his business friendly reforms.


In Villepinte, a suburb north of the capital, Marine Le Pen told supporters: "Emmanuel Macron is just Francois Hollande who wants to stay and who is hanging on to power like a barnacle."


She called for France to reclaim its 'independence' from the EU but made no mention of her proposal to drop the euro Quincy Wilson Colts Jersey , the part of her campaign platform which is the least popular with voters, and which she has played down in recent days.


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Le Pen has worked hard to cleanse the FN of xenophobic and anti-Semitic associations and make it more appealing to a wider electorate. She said at the weekend she had no more contact with her father and was not responsible for his 'unacceptable comments'.


Le Pen senior gave his own traditional May Day speech at a statue of national heroine Joan of Arc, a short walk from where Macron commemorated the death of young Moroccan Brahim Bouarram.


"Emmanuel Macron is doing a tour of graveyards. It's a bad sign for him Malik Hooker Colts Jersey ," he said before a speech to a few hundred supporters that drew chants of "France for the French!" and "Islam out of France!"


At rallies in Paris, Marseille and elsewhere, some trade unionists and activists sought to turn the May Day workers' holiday into a day of national solidarity against the National Front Henry Anderson Rush Jersey , mirroring protests in 2002 when Jean-Marie Le Pen reached the second round of the presidential election before losing heavily to conservative Jacques Chirac.