{"id":306845,"date":"2017-05-05T22:00:43","date_gmt":"2017-05-05T21:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/macron-stretches-lead-as-french-presidential-campaign-enters-final-day\/"},"modified":"2017-05-05T22:00:43","modified_gmt":"2017-05-05T21:00:43","slug":"macron-stretches-lead-as-french-presidential-campaign-enters-final-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/macron-stretches-lead-as-french-presidential-campaign-enters-final-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Macron stretches lead as French presidential campaign enters final day"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>      <!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.trust.org\/item\/20170505053834-t4b4o\"><strong>Reuters<\/strong><\/a><br \/>May 5, 2017<\/p>\n<p><strong>Centrist French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron extended his lead in the polls over his far-right rival Marine Le Pen on Friday, the final day of a tumultuous election campaign that has turned the country\u2019s politics upside down.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The election is seen as the most important in France for decades with two diametrically opposed views of Europe and France\u2019s place in the world at stake.<\/p>\n<p>The National Front\u2019s Le Pen would close borders and quit the euro currency, while independent Macron, who has never held elected office, wants closer European cooperation and an open economy. The candidates of France\u2019s two mainstream parties were both eliminated in the first round on April 23.<\/p>\n<p>Four new polls showed Macron on track to win 62 percent of the votes in the second round compared to 38 percent for Le Pen, his best score in a voting survey by a major polling organisation since nine other candidates were eliminated in the first round on April 23. A fifth poll showed him on 61.5 percent.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.trust.org\/item\/20170505053834-t4b4o\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p>      <!-- END CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p style=\"color:#333; font-size:11px;\">This article was posted: Friday, May 5, 2017  at  7:45 am<\/p>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/><!-- share and follow --><br \/>\n      <!-- end of share and follow --><\/p>\n<div class=\"print_sub\">\n<h3 class=\"sub_titles\">&#13;<br \/>\n        \t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/macron-stretches-lead-as-french-presidential-campaign-enters-final-day.html\/print\/\" title=\"Print\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"WP-PrintIcon\" src=\"https:\/\/hw.prisonplanet.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-print\/images\/printer_famfamfam.gif\" alt=\"Print\" title=\"Print\" style=\"border: 0px;\"\/><\/a><br \/>\nPrint this page.<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/>\n<p>        <!--\n      \n\n<div class=\"nextpage\">\n              <\/div>\n\n \n --><\/p>\n<p><!--\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Gm2pZEeYN0E?list=UUvsye7V9psc-APX6wV1twLg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n--><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/macron-stretches-lead-as-french-presidential-campaign-enters-final-day.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ReutersMay 5, 2017 Centrist French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron extended his lead in the polls over his far-right rival Marine Le Pen on Friday, the final day of a tumultuous election campaign that has turned the country\u2019s politics upside down. The election is seen as the most important in France for decades with two diametrically [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-306845","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306845\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}