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BREAKING NEWS: French far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen steps DOWN as head of National Front in bid to woo moderate voters[/size=5]
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•The Front National leader quit as she made it to the second round of voting
•She will face off against centrist Emmanuel Macron in the final vote on May 7
•President Hollande told voters Le Pen would ruin the economy if she is elected
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French far-right presidential hopeful Marine Le Pen has announced that she is temporarily stepping down as her party's leader in a bid to focus on the presidential election on May 7


In the first round of voting Emmanuel Macron received 23.9 per cent of the vote. He was Hollande's top adviser on economic issues from 2012 to 2014 and was economy minister


Le Pen's father Jean-Marie founded the Front Nationale in 1972, when it was associated with street violence and hatred of foreigners. He is a convicted racist and Holocaust denier


It comes as Le Pen went through to the second round of the French Presidential election, where she will face off against centrist Emmanuel Macron. She said on French television: 'Tonight, I am no longer the president of the National Front. I am the presidential candidate'


While Macron is a committed Europhile, Le Pen wants to pull France out of the EU. She once asked a television programme to remove the European flag from the stage during her speech


French President Francois Hollande has urged voters to choose centrist candidate Emmanuel Macron and said Le Pen would devastate the country's economy and threaten French liberty


Emmanuel Macron billed himself as being 'neither of the left or of the right' and has campaigned on a pro-EU, pro-business platform. Many of his supporters fly European flags at his rallies


Le Pen often wears sombre suits or plays on the blue, white and red colours of the French flag


At a rally last night, Le Pen said: 'It is time to liberate the French people from the arrogant [political] elite.' She won 7.6 million votes in the first round of voting yesterday


Overnight, European stock markets surged as investors predicted the rise of populism around the world may have peaked. But there's no guarantee the French will come together to stop Le Pen from becoming President


Socialist candidate Benoit Hamon, whose party holds a majority in the legislature, got just 6 percent of the vote. Turnout was one per cent lower than the first round of voting in 2012

source:http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4441258/Marine-Le-Pen-stepping-party-leader.html