Thursday, January 28, 2021

#FRANCE: Poll Shows Right-Wing Candidate Marine Le Pen Within 4 Points Of Pres. Macron

[world politics news] 


A new Harris Interactive poll for the 2022 French Presidential election shows that, in a run-off between the incumbent President Emmanuel Macron and nationalist opponent Marine Le Pen, Macron would receive 52% of the vote. 

This is the lowest number from Macron that's ever been recorded by a pollster.

Macron has had historically bad poll numbers for years, though. His handling of the "Yellow jacket" protests and his conservative economic reforms were largely to blame.

Le Pen has served as president of the National Rally political party (previously named National Front) since 2011. She has been the member of the National Assembly for Pas-de-Calais's 11th constituency since June, 2017.

In 2012, she placed third in the presidential election with 17.90% of the vote, behind François Hollande and Nicolas Sarkozy.

She launched a second bid to become President of France at the 2017 presidential election. She finished second in the first round of the election, with 21.30% of the vote, and faced Emmanuel Macron of centrist party En Marche! in the second round of voting. On May 7, 2017, she conceded after receiving approximately 33.9% of the vote in the second round.

She is the daughter of former National Front leader Jean-Marie Le Pen, who headed the party for nearly 40 years, and who also sought the presidency repeatedly. 

She has sought to distance herself from his more controversial positions and statements, which opponents characterized as anti-Semitic and racist.

[FULL STORY HERE]

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