Emmanuel Macron warned that his nationalist opponent, Marine Le Pen, risks starting a ¡°civil war¡± in France with a ban on Muslim headscarves, while Le Pen sought to portray the president as an elitist in thrall to global finance.
In a televised debate before the final round of the presidential election on Sunday, Le Pen called Macron a ¡°Mozart of Finance,¡± a moniker that has followed him since his days as an investment banker. She said his economic policies had been a disappointment and referred to herself as the ¡°spokeswoman of the French people.¡±
The head-to-head got progressively more heated as the night wore on, addressing issues from tech startups to the role of religion in public life, though it didn¡¯t reach the hostility of their previous encounter in 2017.
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