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Le Pen tries to win the female electorate, but France's feminists say 'Non Merci, Madame!' | Elections in France | DR Marine Le Pen describes herself as a 'feminist who does not despise men'. By DR's international correspondent Friends Carla and Lea enthusiastically wave their French flags each. first presidential election. And they are voting for Marine Le Pen.- It would be huge to have a female president, shouts Lea Macary, who has attended a voter meeting with Marine Le Pen in the south of France to get a glimpse of the woman who can go and stay France's first Madame la Présidente. Friend Carla Alcatara votes in: - It would be SO big. Honestly, that would be brilliant. The two students are among the 52 percent French voters who are women. And that is a group that and right-wing leader Marine Le Pen is trying to capture before the second and election rounds on Sunday. But it is no easy task for Le Pen, who at the last election in 2017 had to see 68 percent of female voters vote for her rival, Emmanuel Macron, while only 32 percent of women voted for her. But the time - and not least the candidate - is different now than in 2017, says Lea Macary.- Yes! I think she has been given a much bigger place today in the hearts of the French and not least in the hearts of the young people, she says. We are in a somewhat complicated situation. I am, of course, in favor of women in power, but not at any cost. And the woman who is running is from the far right, and that's not a price I'm willing to pay, says 26-year-old Salomé Darrigrand, a sex worker in Paris who works for the organization in the City.Even if Marine Le Pen were to win power, she would in no way stand for a policy that benefits women.Salomé Darrigrand, feminist and against Le PenMany French voices on Sunday on Emmanuel Macron. Not necessarily out of enthusiasm for his project, but rather to vote against Marine Le Pen. This is not least due to Le Pen's ambitions to tighten abortion rules, making it harder for women to get what Le Pen has called 'comfort abortions'. Also, the ambition to criminalize women wearing a Muslim headscarf in the streets and alleys is causing many to rage.- Even if Marine Le Pen were to win power, she would in no way stand for a policy that benefits women. She is a politician from the far right who in no way has a feminist program, says Salomé Darrigrand and continues: - On the contrary, there are man-chauvinistic, racist and Islamophobic elements in her program, so it would be a disaster. A woman in power? Yes please. But not Le Pen. Le Pen himself has in this on the question 'Are you, Madame?' the answer that she is' one who does not despise men'.Come on! Now it's a woman's turn to be elected. Marine Le Pen, presidential candidate A wording that arouses cheers in her own backyard and frustration among the country's declared. voters here in the final sprint where Emmanuel Macron leads in. According to the media, he stands to get 54 percent of the votes on Sunday, while Marine Le Pen stands to get 46 percent. mother or the woman who is a victim of partner violence 'and not least' women who stay in public space '. And at her voter meeting in Avignon on Thursday, Marine Le Pen put on a trump card: - Come on! Now it's a woman's turn to be elected, it sounded from the woman who on Sunday can write French history.