By RFI
As campaigning continues ahead of the 6 May run-off for French president both candidates set out on Monday to court the more than six million people who voted for the far-right Front National party of Marine Le Pen in Sunday’s first round.
Incumbent President Nicolas Sarkozy, who had already swung to the right in the campaign, brandished his right-wing credentials in his first post-results speech on Sunday.
“These anxieties, this suffering, I know them, I understand them,” he said. “They are about respecting our borders, the determined fight against job relocation, controlling immigration, putting value on work, on security,” he said.