Emmanuel Macron (C), head of the political movement En Marche !, or Onwards !, and candidate for the 2017 French presidential election, uses a megaphone to talk to Whirlpool employees in front of the company plant in Amiens, France, April 26, 2017. REUTERS/Pascal Rossignol
AMIENS, France, April 26 (Reuters) - - Striking workers jeered France's front-running presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday when he showed up at a northern French factory after being publicly trumped by far-right rival Marine Le Pen.
Setting a public relations trap for centrist Macron in a region that staunchly supports her National Front, Le Pen unexpectedly showed up at the tumble-drier Whirlpool factory in Amiens while he was meeting union representatives on the other side of town.
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