[caption id="attachment_130229" align="alignnone" /> Emmanuel Macron, head of the political movement En March. !, or Onward. !, and candidate for the 2017 French presidential election, attends a news conference at his campaign headquarters in Paris, France, March 28, 2017.[/caption]
French former Prime Minister Manuel Valls said on Wednesday he would vote for centrist candidate Emmanuel Macron rather than the Socialist contender in France's presidential election. Valls, a Socialist himself, said the election was wide-open and he would to do all he could to ensure that far-right leader Marine Le Pen, second-placed in opinion polls, did not get to the second, runoff round on May 7 or win power. "I'm not going to take any risks," Valls told BFM TV. French opinion polls have consistently shown Macron winning the election in a second-round vote where he would face off against Le Pen. Reuters