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		</div><p>France&#8217;s presidential candidates have started debating on national television in their only televised one-to-one before the run-off election. The far-right leader of the National Front party, Marine Le Pen, and independent centrist Emmanuel Macron sat at a table facing each other, with photos of the Elysee Palace projected behind them.</p>
<p>They are being questioned in the debate by two journalists from TF1 and France 2, the country&#8217;s major television channels. Both candidates came out swinging in their opening remarks.<br />
Mr Macron said the populist Ms Le Pen, daughter of former extreme-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen, &#8220;prospers on the anger of the French&#8221;.</p>
<p>She tore into Mr Macron as an ally of the world of finance and declared herself &#8220;the candidate of the people, of the France that we love&#8221;. &#8220;You lie all the time,&#8221; he said. &#8220;You propose nothing.&#8221;<br />
She dismissed his economic proposals with sweeping critiques and bristled at his suggestions that she did not understand how finance and business works.</p>
<p>&#8220;You&#8217;re trying to play with me like a professor with a pupil,&#8221; she said. Sitting opposite each other at a round table, neither pulled their punches. With both talking over each other, the debate quickly became a shouting match at times, with no common ground between the pro-European Union centrist candidate and the anti-EU Ms Le Pen.</p>
<p>Ms Le Pen accused her centrist rival of being &#8220;complacent&#8221; about Islamic fundamentalists.<br />
She said: &#8220;We must eradicate the Islamist ideology.&#8221; She has pledged to shut down a powerful fundamentalist federation linked to the Muslim Brotherhood, known as the Union of Islamic Organisations in France (UOIF), and said it supports Mr Macron.</p>
<p>Ms Le Pen has also proposed a series of measures to stamp out the possibility of another new terrorist attack in France, including expelling all foreigners with a record and revoking the French citizenship of dual-nationals under suspicion. She suggested Mr Macron was &#8220;waiting for an attack&#8221; rather than taking proactive measures.</p>
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