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The Front National MEP said the “most significant” battle would be between Marine Le Pen who hailed national independence and Mr Macron who defended “globalist forces”. Speaking on Daily Politics, the Front National member claimed Mrs Le Pen would relish going up against either centre-left candidate Mr Macron or conservative Francois Fillon. He said: “The most significant, I don’t think the easiest, the most significant will be a second round between Mrs Le Pen and Mr Macron.

GETTY•BBC Bruno Gollnisch said Marine Le Pen would prefer Emmanuel Macron

Most significant will be a second round between Mrs Le Pen and Mr Macron Bruno Gollnisch

“Mr Macron represents really globalist forces, financial interests, opening the borders to all influx of people of goods, of funds, and Mrs Le Pen will defend national independence and national identity. “So this will be very significant, but if it is Mr Fillon we will fight peacefully and legally against Mr Fillon and their friends, so called Conservatives.” He added Marine Le Pen would not pay back “a single penny” of the 300,000 euros the European Union is demanding she mis-spent, saying the bloc was trying to make trouble for “all people who disagree” with its “Euro-globalism”.

Mrs Le Pen refused to attend a summons for questioning by police over allegations that she made illegal EU payments to her staff last month. Le Pen's chief of staff was put under formal investigation on Feb 22 after a day of questioning over the alleged misuse of EU funds to pay parliamentary assistants. Her bodyguard was also questioned but was later released without being placed under investigation.

Things you didn't know about Marine Le Pen Fri, May 5, 2017 Marine Le Pen is a French politician who is the president of the National Front, a national-conservative political party in France and one of its main political forces. Play slideshow AFP/Getty Images 1 of 10 Described as more democratic and republican than her nationalist father, she has led a movement of "de-demonization of the Front National" to detoxify it and soften its image