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04-27-2017, 11:13 AM
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Macron gets rough ride in Le Pen country
 AMIENS, France: French presidential frontrunner Emmanuel Macron was booed and heckled with chants backing his far-right rival Marine Le Pen as he made a chaotic visit to an under-threat factory in the nation’s rustbelt on Wednesday. Some in the crowd shouted "President Marine!" and booed as the 39-year-old former banker arrived outside the Whirlpool appliance factory in the **rthern city of Amiens, where Le Pen had made an unan**unced stop hours earlier. "I am here to speak to you," the pro-business former eco**my minister told workers, ringed by a horde of cameramen and journalists. "Of course there is anger in this country, there is anxiety. Responsibility must be taken, that’s why I’m here." The factory operated by Whirlpool, a US multinational company, is threatened with outsourcing to Poland. Macron was in Amiens, his home town, to try to counter accusations that he had made a complacent start to campaigning for the presidential ru**ff on May 7. He finished ahead of Le Pen, 48, in the first round on Sunday. A poll out on Wednesday suggested that Macron will defeat Le Pen by a margin of 21 points, but as the day’s events showed, the far-right candidate is a vastly more experienced political campaigner. And after the shocks of Britain’s vote to leave the European Union and Donald Trump’s unlikely ascent to the White House, analysts say a late surge by Le Pen is still possible. Macron was also due to hold a rally in Arras, a city in the eco**mically depressed **rth where Le Pen topped first-round voting. While Macron had arranged to meet Whirlpool workers’ union representatives without actually visiting the plant, Le Pen turned up unan**unced outside the plant and posed for selfies with workers and attacked her rival. "Everyone k**ws what side Emmanuel Macron is on -- he is on the side of the corporations," Le Pen said. "I am on the workers’ side, here in the car park, **t in restaurants in Amiens." As news broke of the Le Pen visit, Macron an**unced he would also go to the plant to meet with its employees. After arriving, he told angry workers that the only reason that the anti-EU Le Pen had come was "because I’m here". He also retorted on Twitter that she had spent "10 minutes with her supporters in a car park in front of the cameras" whereas he had spent "an hour and a half with union representatives and ** media." أكثر... 
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