Le Pen's Euro Contortions Underline French Reluctance to Exit
- Euro issue is ‘thorn in her side’ in appealing to voters
- Macron holds strong lead with week to go before voting
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French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen’s attempt to offer reassurances on her euro exit policy shows how voter attachment to the single currency represents one of her most difficult electoral hurdles.
With a week to go in the campaign, Le Pen appeared to step back from her single most distinct policy, saying Saturday that there was no rush on a euro exit. Then Sunday, in an interview with Le Parisien newspaper, she said “the euro is dead” and that she still wants to have two currencies -- one for daily use by the population and one for international trade.