Macron's victory speech and a high-profile celebration, after winning Sunday's polls with 24.1 percent to Le Pen's 21.3 percent, drew criticism from some. "They can be in agreement with us", Steeve Brios, the mayor of Le Pen's northern bastion of Henin-Beaumont, told The Associated Press, adding that those far-left voters sought choices "outside the system". He wrongly thought that it was a done deal.
A Harris poll published late on Tuesday showed that more than 60 percent of French people believed that Le Pen had begun her campaign better than Macron with more than 40 percent considering Macron's restaurant celebration a mistake. "It's not very respectful of democracy, of the voters".
Marine Le Pen came in second and that is a "defeat" for her, as she was hoping to become the favorite in this race...
She said the French government must promote meat from France.
He called on anti-fascists a r o u n d Europe to combat the rise of the far-right who UAF says will feel "emboldened" by Ms Le Pen's win. Yet others fear her far-right party, saying the changes she has made to scrub its image of racism are merely cosmetic.
Campaign staffer Mikael Sala resents accusations that the party is racist and insists that Le Pen can be president for French people of all ethnicities.
Her policies of protectionism, her anti-EU and anti-euro stance coupled with her desire to up import taxes would not only hit the most fragile of the country's citizens, but would also isolate the nation and rupture the bloc, Hollande said. "It's a disgrace", another said repeatedly.
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"Tonight, I am no longer the president of the National Front.
She inherited her father's party and we will undoubtedly have Le Pens running for the next 20 years, because after we had the father, we have the daughter and we will doubtless have the niece", he said, referring to Marion Marechal-Le Pen.
Earlier Tuesday, the rival candidates attended a sombre ceremony honouring a policeman killed on the Champs-Elysees last week.
"If the pro-European Union Emmanuel Macron wins, I do not believe that it will have any major effect on the relations between the European Union and the United States - both will try to keep on working on a free trade agreement", University of Kent Research Associate Benjamin Leruth said.
Cardiles was echoing the sentiment of the husband of a victim of the November 2015 jihadist attack on Paris's Bataclan concert hall who said to the perpetrators: "You won't have my hatred".
If elected president, Le Pen vowed to immediately put in place a "battle plan against Islamic terrorism.so that France lives!"
Le Pen wants to pull France out of the European Union, which Macron wants to strengthen.
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