Anti-Le Pen Marches Continue in France

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Anti-Le Pen Marches Continue in France

Demonstrations continued Saturday in large cities across France to protest against far-rightist, Jean-Marie Le Pen, who will race in the presidential run-off one week ahead.

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Demonstrations continued Saturday in large cities across France to protest against far-rightist, Jean-Marie Le Pen, who will race in the presidential run-off one week ahead.

Called by a dozen anti-racist and human rights organizations and labor unions, tens of thousands of people were marching from the Place of Republic to the Place of Nation in southeast downtown Paris. Paris Mayor Paris Bertrand Delanoe was among them.

Marching behind a banner reading "No Pasaran" -- a republican slogan during the Spanish civil war which means "They Will Not Make It", the protesters shouted slogans such as "First, Second, Third Generation, We Are All Children of Immigrants".

In the southeastern city of Grenoble, about 20,000 people were in the streets to express their opposition to Le Pen, the 73-year- old anti-Europe, anti-immigration presidential candidate.

In Marseilles and Strasbourg, the numbers of protesters on Saturday afternoon were estimated at 15,000 and 20,000 respectively.

By Friday, more than 300,000 people in France had demonstrated across more than 20 cities in protest against Le Pen, who caused a political earthquake last Sunday when he eliminated Socialist Prime Minister Lionel Jospin and qualified for the run-off on May 5.

Labor unions and anti-racist organizations have called for huge rallies in every French city and town on Saturday and even bigger ones on Wednesday, the traditional May 1 Labor Day.

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