Mikael Sala said: "Marine Le Pen has experience and to me, the ultimate test in this world that we live in, which is a very unsafe world, is you have to be a leader who has to play in the big league with Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin".
Support for Macron also poured in Monday from the seat of the European Union, as well as German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Jewish and Muslim groups troubled by Le Pen's nationalist vision.
According to the results provided by the French Interior Ministry, Sunday's first round of the French presidential election ended with Macron leading with 23.75 percent of votes and Le Pen trailing slightly behind with 21.53 percent.
Le Pen's father, Jean-Marie, made it into a presidential runoff against Jacques Chirac in 2002 and was crushed.
Whatever the outcome on May 7, it will mean a redrawing of France's political landscape, which has been dominated for 60 years by mainstream groupings from the centre-left and centre-right, both of whose candidates faded.
Karen Gillan was meant to die in Guardians of the Galaxy
When asked by hosts Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield who she wanted to be the 13th Doctor, she said: "Helen Mirren. And then when we got close to shooting that, suddenly her ending was rewritten, and then it was rewritten again.
In the 2012 presidential race, Socialist Francois Hollande traveled to a closure-threatened steel plant in eastern France's rust belt in a similar pursuit of blue-collar votes. "I am the presidential candidate", she said on French television.
Farage said he was not "calling it" for Le Pen, but predicted the gap between the two candidates will "narrow considerably" in the next two weeks.
Le Pen, 48, is fighting her second presidential campaign after coming in third in 2012 while Macron, a 39-year-old former investment banker and economy minister, is fighting his first, having never held elected office.
Fillon, who was charged in March with abuse of public funds, only just scraped ahead of radical left candidate Jean-Luc Melenchon on 19.58 percent. He founded the National Front and led the party from 1972 until 2011.
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