Less than two months before the first round of the French presidential elections on April 10, Emmanuel Macron reigns in all polls on voting intention. The polls give the current president 24.8% of the votes, followed by the far-right Marine Le Pen (16.5%), from the extreme right Eric Zemmour (14.8%) and conservative Valerie Pécresse (14.6%). The polls show him the winner against any of the three rivals in the second round on April 24.
Macron, who took over the French presidency in 2017 at the head of a movement –The Republic on the Move– Apart from the traditional political parties and with a broad program of liberal reforms, many of which he has not been able to carry out, he arrives at the new presidential appointment weakened, with less than 40% of popular support. But the leader has benefited from the division of the extreme right with the emergence of Zemmour, the candidate who would give the president the best result if he faced him in a second round: 62% support.
vote by vote
The pulse of the two far-right candidates has become a fight vote by vote and with the narrow margins that the polls manage, it is not ruled out that both will be left out of the second round in favor of the traditional right-wing candidate, Pécresse, who is running for the first time in a presidential election after surprisingly winning his party’s primaries.
The left leaves without possibilities in this presidential race, being the candidate of the France Insumisa, Jean-Luc Melenchon, the one with the best score (10.6%) followed by the ecologist Yannick Jadot (5%).
The official campaign will officially start on March 28 and will be interrupted on April 8 at midnight to respect the day of reflection. After the second round on April 24, the president-elect must take office on May 13 at the latest.