Voters: Anti-Immigration Politics and Right

voters: Extremism can only bring unhappiness and division to France, defeated conservative candidate Fran ois Fillon said, according to Hamilton Spectator. As such, there is no other choice than to vote against the extreme right. French politicians on the left and right immediately urged voters to block Le Pen's path to power in the May 7 run-off, saying her virulently nationalist anti-EU and anti-immigration politics would spell disaster for France. The selection of Le Pen and Macron presented voters with the starkest possible choice between two diametrically opposed visions of the EU's future and France's place in it. With Le Pen wanting France to leave the EU and Macron wanting even closer co-operation between the bloc's 28 nations, Sunday's outcome meant the May 7 run-off will have undertones of a referendum on France's EU membership. It set up a battle between Macron's optimistic vision of a tolerant France, a united Europe with open borders against Le Pen's darker, inward-looking platform that called for closed borders, tougher security, less immigration and dropping the shared euro currency to return to the French franc. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.