‘We don’t want Macron or Le Pen – now what?!’ Exasperated Frenchwoman

A FRENCH voter has slammed the presidential election’s offered choice between Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen.

Voting has begun across France as citizens decide whether to re-elect President Emmanuel Macron or challenger Marine Le Pen. However, one French voter argued that neither candidate had won the public’s support, and that the electorate made a poor choice at the polls.

The woman told BBC News: “I don’t for Marine [Le Pen] I vote against Macron.

“It is a problem in this country now that people say they don’t want Macron and they don’t want Macron.

“So what we do?!”

She added: “The friends of Marine Le Pen may be fascist, I don’t know.

“But I don’t want Macron!”

Recent opinion polls showed Macron maintaining a solid and slightly growing lead over Le Pen, despite her efforts to soften her image and moderate some of her National Rally party’s policies.

However, a Le Pen victory by surprise cannot be ruled out. With polls indicating that neither candidate has enough core supporters to win, much will depend on those still weighing their fears about the consequences of a far-right presidency against their anger at Macron’s performance since his 2017 election.

A Le Pen victory would cause a political upheaval comparable to Brexit or Donald Trump’s election victory in the United States in 2016, bringing an end to decades of rule by mainstream French leaders and posing the latest threat to the European Union’s future.

Le Pen has maintained that she has no “secret agenda” to have France, a founding member of the EU, leave the 27-nation bloc, its single currency, or its passport-free Schengen zone.

Opponents believe her policies would exacerbate tensions within the bloc – whose unity has been tested in recent years by a migration crisis, Britain’s exit, and the Covid 19 pandemic – and would inevitably result in a “Frexit.”

Le Pen has stated that she intends to reduce France’s contribution to the EU budget, renegotiate the Schengen agreement, and reintroduce checks on goods entering the country from other EU member states.

She would seek to restore French law’s primacy over EU law – the bedrock of European integration – and wants the bloc to revert to a loose association of cooperating sovereign states.

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