Le Pen, Macron kick off battle for French presidency

  by Jurgen HECKER, Adam PLOWRIGHT and Stuart WILLIAMS Agence France Presse PARIS, France (AFP) — French President Emmanuel Macron and his far-right rival Marine Le Pen on Monday kicked off a final fortnight of bruising campaigning for the French presidency in a run-off that polls predict risks being tight. With 97 percent votes counted, Macron came in first in Sunday’s first round of voting with 27.6 percent of the vote. Le Pen was second […]