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washington post: Marine Le Pen of the populist, far-right National Front used her last big rally to call her centrist rival, former banker Emmanuel Macron, a representative of the caviar left and accused him of moralizing snobbery, according to Toronto Star. Macron, in turn, has been raking up the ghosts of the National Front's contentious past. ERIC FEFERBERG / AFP/Getty Images By Max Bearak The Washington Post Mon., May 1, 2017 With less than a week to go before the second and final round of the French presidential election, the two candidates are trading harsh taunts. He made a high-profile visit to France's biggest Holocaust memorial, which seemed to be aimed at drawing attention to two recent National Front scandals. And Jean-Fran ois Jalkh, who recently took over from Le Pen as the party's head, stepped down just two days after his appointment when an interview he did in 2000 questioning whether the poisonous gas Zyklon B was used against Jews in the camps resurfaced. Read more French presidential candidate Le Pen steps down as head of National Front party Article Continued Below French students protest both Marine Le Pen and Emmanuel MacronA week from presidential runoff, Macron summons shame of France's wartime history Last month, Le Pen was widely criticized for claiming that France wasn't responsible for the deportation of thousands of Jews to concentration camps in 1942. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.