Le Pen on the Attack as Macron Lies Low After First Round
- Nationalist aims to paint front-runner as out of touch elitist
- Macron campaign to get underway with Arras rally Wednesday
Future of France: Macron and Le Pen Go Head-to-Head
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Presidential candidate Marine Le Pen and her lieutenants pounded her rival Emmanuel Macron, as the front-runner in the race for the French presidency remained quiet for a second day.
Thirty-six hours after they took the top spots in the first round of the presidential election and progressed to the May 7 run-off, Le Pen, 48, has been interviewed on one of the main evening news shows and visited Paris’s wholesale food market, while 39-year-old Macron has barely been seen. Polls suggest Macron should win the runoff by at least 20 percentage points, the latest one Tuesday from OpinionWay showed Macron would get 61 percent.