Is France angry? Its candidates (unsurprisingly) disagree
Is France angry? Its candidates (unsurprisingly) disagree PARIS (AP) — French far-right leader Marine Le Pen acknowledged Friday that she was angry during this week’s presidential debate against her centrist rival, but said she was merely channeling the anger she sees throughout the country. Emmanuel Macron countered that she was exploiting anger and insecurity — not reflecting it. In the last day of campaigning before Sunday’s presidential vote, the two candidates offered a starkly different future for France. Le Pen wants to pull France out of the European Union and abandon the euro currency, although she has softened that view somewhat in recent days. Macron, a former banker and economy minister who advocates for the entrepreneurial spirit, usually appears with both French and EU flags in the background. During the only debate between the two, Macron mostly kept his calm during testy exchanges while Le Pen was more aggressive from the outset. Le Pen’s father, Jea