The 48-year-old candidate said she will negotiate to restore French national sovereignty and will call a referendum where French voters would decide on the European Union and euro membership. "While she expresses her position, her conviction, she is not the president of the National Front, " Marine said adding: "I am president of the National Front".
In response to Le Pen's protectionist views, Macron invoked his hometown of Somme, which was a major battlefield in World War One.
Benoit Hamon, the ruling Socialist party's candidate, ranked fourth with 12.5 percent, the poll showed, only slightly ahead of radical left-wing contender Jean-Luc Melenchon. (Onwards!) and Francois Asselineau of UPR party.
Le Pen's odds have not changed in a scenario where she is pitted against Francois Fillon, a conservative from The Republicans party, in the second-round voting.
Macron replied by saying that his rival was repeating "the same lies" uttered by her father Jean-Marie Le Pen, the founder of the National Front, for 40 years.
"Marine Le Pen is a French nationalist, and if she wins, France will not be the kind of ally that it has been to the United States for so many years since the foundation of North Atlantic Treaty Organisation".
And though Le Pen may see more eye-to-eye with President Trump than other candidates, Boston University global relations professor William Keylor cautioned that a nationalist France wouldn't necessarily be a boon to the U.S. "However, large majority of French people do not wish to leave the European currency, which means that there is no economic policy for Madame Le Pen", Fillon said.
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The 11 candidates included frontrunners Emmanuel Macron, Marine Le Pen and François Fillon as well as those with less than 1% support at the polls. She insisted she would not do that immediately if elected, but first hold negotiations and a referendum.
Despite their differences on a few issues, Marion has continued to campaign for her aunt's presidential bid and looks to bring her traditionalist Catholic supporters to the polls in April.
Polls show far-right candidate Le Pen and centrist independent Macron locked together at around 26 percent heading into the first round on April 23.
That showed Macron's first round vote at 23.5 percent, his lowest score in a month and down from 25.5 percent the last time the poll was conducted on March 28-29.
Fillon, a 63-year-old conservative prime minister, was the frontrunner in the campaign until he was hit by allegations that he paid his wife, a son and daughter hundreds of thousands of euros of public money for minimal work.
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