GETTY Marine Le Pen has declared the “system” is panicking because people are 'waking up'

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The Front National leader launched a blistering attack on her two main French presidential opponents at a political rally on Sunday. She condemned centrist Emmanuel Macron and conservative candidate François Fillon – both of which she said belonged to the same elitist political “system”. The hardline leader’s scathing comments prompted the crowd to shout: “We’ve had enough!”

Mrs Le Pen first attacked 39-year-old Mr Macron, a former economy minister under François Hollande, who she said was the media’s “favourite” candidate and Mr Hollande’s “avatar” Mrs Le Pen then hit out at Mr Fillon, saying that he was a “promise-making machine” and that he had “done nothing” for the French during his five years as Nicolas Sarkozy’s prime minister.

GETTY The Front National leader launched a blistering attack on her two main French presidential opponents

She said: “The system is panicking because it can see that the people are waking up.”

The euro is mostly a knife stuck in our ribs to make us go where others want us to go Marine Le Pen

Mrs Le Pen also lambasted the French media, saying that political journalists and commentators were “caricaturising” her and attacking her with “poisoned arrows”.

GETTY rs Le Pen then hit out at Mr Fillon, saying that he was a 'promise-making machine'

The anti-Brussels and anti-immigrant candidate also told the rally in the southwestern city of Bordeaux that the euro currency – which she wants France to drop – “a knife” in the ribs of the French people and that the upcoming election could trigger a “change in civilisation”. She said: “We are at the mercy of a currency adapted to Germany and not to our economy. The euro is mostly a knife stuck in our ribs to make us go where others want us to go.”

GETTY She condemned centrist Emmanuel Macron as being a part of the elitest 'system'