Candidates squeeze in last-minute visits and criticise each other’s showing in previous night’s TV debate
from which Macron emerged narrowly victorious, but which was also seen as unlikely to have changed many voters’ intentions, with the president accused of being arrogant and Le Pen of lacking credibility as a potential leader.
Macron was greeted by Saint-Denis’s Socialist mayor, Mathieu Hanotin, who unlike others on the left has called for voters to back Macron on Sunday. Macron promised more investment in poor districts such as Saint-Denis, including increased funding for schools and to help underprivileged young people find work.
Gabriel Attal, a government spokesperson, said Le Pen had “changed her style but not the substance”. He accused her of wanting to “divide the French”, echoing Macron’s accusation that her proposed ban on the Islamic headscarf in public places would cause “civil war” in city suburbs.
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