Macron, Le Pen trade blows in final day of campaign

PARIS (AP) — The finalists for France’s presidency, President Emmanuel Macron and far-right leader Marine Le Pen, traded blows on the last day of legal campaigning as they tried to appeal to undecided voters. Macron, the center-right incumbent, laid into the nationalist challenger he defeated in 2017 and is set to face again in a Sunday runoff. During his final campaign speech, Macron described the election as a “referendum for or against a secular, united, indivisible Republic” and presented himself as a guardian of democratic values. Le Pen was behind Macron in the latest opinion polls. In a last-ditch effort to close the gap, she said Macron’s planned pension reforms would make the French work forever.