European leaders back Macron as French election campaign nears end

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"2">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>Just days before France’s crucial presidential run-off vote&comma; the centre-left leaders of Germany&comma; Spain and Portugal have urged French voters to choose centrist President Emmanuel Macron over far-right nationalist rival Marine Le Pen&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>And in another sign of the wide international influence the result of Sunday’s French presidential vote will have&comma; imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny also spoke up a day earlier&comma; urging French voters to back Mr Macron and alleging that Ms Le Pen is too closely linked to Russian authorities&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Ms Le Pen has faced scrutiny before over a nine million euro &lpar;£7&period;5 million&rpar; loan that her party received in 2014 from the First Czech-Russian Bank and her 2017 visit to Moscow to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin before the French presidential run-off that year&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In a column published on Thursday in several European newspapers&comma; German Chancellor Olaf Scholz&comma; Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez and Portuguese Prime Minister Antonio Costa wrote that Sunday’s vote is &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;critical for France and all and every one of us in Europe”&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;It’s the election between a democratic candidate who believes that France’s strength broadens in a powerful and autonomous European Union and an extreme-right candidate who openly sides with those who attack our freedom and democracy&comma; values based on the French ideas of Enlightenment&comma;” the joint comment said without mentioning Mr Macron or Ms Le Pen by name&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Social Democrat Mr Scholz and Socialists Mr Sanchez and Mr Costa wrote that Europe &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;is facing a change of era” due to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and that &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;populists and the extreme right” are viewing Mr Putin &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;as an ideological and political model&comma; replicating his chauvinist ideas”&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;They have echoed his attacks on minorities and diversity and his goal of nationalist uniformity&comma;” they said&comma; according to the article in Spain’s leading newspaper El Pais&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;We must not forget that&comma; no matter how much those politicians are now trying to distance themselves from the Russian aggressor&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The column ended by appealing to unity to &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;maintain prosperity and well-being” in Europe&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;That’s why we need France to be on our side&comma;” the leaders wrote&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr Macron is not taking any chances by being complacent&comma; even with polling data for his camp in recent days that show a stabilised lead against his rival&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>On Thursday&comma; he was visiting voters in the multicultural suburb of Paris of Saint Denis&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;173473" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-173473" style&equals;"width&colon; 790px" class&equals;"wp-caption alignnone"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;londonglossy&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2022&sol;04&sol;DE496570-9B72-45C1-8D2D-815BE37EBDA7&period;jpeg" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"790" height&equals;"515" class&equals;"size-full wp-image-173473" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-173473" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">Marine Le Pen campaigning in Saint-Pierre-en-Auge&comma; Normandy<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>Ms Le Pen is speaking with voters in Arras ahead of her final rally there&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The two rivals clashed bitterly in Wednesday’s televised debate&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr Macron argued that the loan Ms Le Pen’s party received in 2014 from a Czech-Russian bank made her unsuitable to deal with Moscow amid its invasion of Ukraine&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He also said her plans to ban Muslim women in France from wearing headscarves in public would trigger &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;civil war” in the country that has the largest Muslim population in western Europe&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Ms Le Pen&comma; 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