Unions in France Split Over Whether to Back Emmanuel Macron
French said that I don’t want to do so, because the day after, we will have a ‘Frexit,’
Le Pen, who announced last week that she would name a former right-wing rival prime minister if elected, said on Monday at a campaign rally near Paris
that Mr. Macron was the candidate of "finance" and that he was an "adversary of the people." "I will be a president who protects," Ms.
At a rally of his supporters in Paris on Monday, Mr. Macron reiterated his economic agenda and renewed calls for a "strong Europe." But he said he would never "judge" a National Front voter, "because behind
that vote there is always an anger, an outrage, a disappointment." Though he condemned Ms.
Demonstrators at a smaller rally organized earlier on Monday in Paris by more moderate
labor unions, who have endorsed Mr. Macron, said voters had to choose.
By AURELIEN BREEDENMAY 1, 2017
PARIS — France’s presidential campaign entered its last week on Monday, coinciding with May Day labor demonstrations around the country
that reflected a split among unions over whether to endorse Emmanuel Macron, the centrist candidate, against Marine Le Pen, his far-right opponent.
European Union said that Mr. M
Philippe Martinez, the head of the General Confederation of Labor, one of France’s biggest unions, told the newspaper Le Parisien on Sunday
that while his and other unions agreed on opposing the National Front, "we are not in 2002 anymore." At the bigger demonstration on Monday in Paris, unions marched for workers’ rights and against Ms.
