Article content PARIS — French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday accused his far-right challenger Marine Le Pen of lying to voters about her “racist” platform as he sought to rally support two days before the presidential election’s first round. “There was a clear strategy (from Le Pen’s camp) to hide what is brutal in her program,” Macron told Le Parisien in an interview published on Friday. Advertisement 2 This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. “They won’t necessarily vote for Marine Le Pen, but they don’t want to vote for Emmanuel Macron,” said Jean-David Levy, the deputy director of polling institute Harris Interactive. Article content Other than Macron and Le Pen, this trend is set to favor far-left veteran Jean-Luc Melenchon who – also on an upward trend – ranks third with around 17% of forecast votes.

Source: National Post April 08, 2022 18:25 UTC