Speaking in the city where she once compared the sight of Muslims praying in the street to the Nazi occupation, Le Pen said: "We do not want to live under the tyranny of fundamentalism." Michel Ducreux, 54, a farmer, also liked Le Pen's nationalist stance "and her policies for creating jobs for those who have the least". The FN's influential deputy leader Florian Philippot insisted that the momentum was with Le Pen and not the fast-rising Macron. One of Le Pen's advisors conceded however on Saturday that "on paper", Macron currently had the best chance of winning a head-to-head duel. Macron said Le Pen "did not speak in the name of the people" and he took aim at nepotism in the FN, which was founded by her father, anti-Semitic former paratrooper Jean-Marie Le Pen.

Source: The Local February 06, 2017 07:51 UTC