Voters: Anti-Immigration Politics and Euro Currency

voters: 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, according to Huffington Post Canada. It set up a battle between Macron's optimistic vision of a tolerant France with open borders against Le Pen's darker, inward-looking platform calling for closed borders, tougher security, less immigration and dropping the shared euro currency to return to the franc. French politicians on the left and right immediately urged voters to block Le Pen's path to power in the May 7 runoff, saying her virulently nationalist anti-EU and anti-immigration politics would spell disaster for France. 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 after a wildly unpredictable and tense campaign meant the runoff will have undertones of a referendum on France's EU membership. With 34 per cent of the vote counted, the Interior Ministry said Sunday night that Le Pen was leading with 24.6 per cent of the vote followed by Macron with 21.9 per cent. TAG START player CA Play In Place Autoplay for AOL Canada function commercial video var TAG END date 4/23/17 The absence in the runoff of candidates from either the mainstream left Socialists or the right-wing Republicans party the two main groups that have governed post-war France also marked a seismic shift in the French political landscape. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.