#FRANCE: LePen Leads Macron By 12 Points In Latest Poll

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Emmanuel Macron has been dealt a major blow as Marine Le Pen’s National Rally soars ahead in the latest EU Parliament poll of polls.

National Rally, which is led in Brussels by Le Pen’s protege Jordan Bardella, registered 30 per cent support, up seven-points compared to the last election.

The election is slated for next month.

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AUSTRALIA: Support For Immigration Falls With Housing Crunch

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Support for immigration is collapsing in the face of a nationwide housing crisis in Australia, with almost half the country in a recent survey  now saying they would be more likely to vote for a party committed to reducing the annual migrant intake. 

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#FRANCE: PM Borne Seeks To Raise Retirement Age, Polls Against The Idea

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French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne on Tuesday unveiled a contentious pension overhaul aimed at raising the retirement age from 62 to 64 by 2030, which has prompted vigorous criticism and calls for protests from leftist opponents and worker unions. A recent poll showed overwhelming opposition to the idea.

Speaking in a news conference in Paris, Borne said the minimum retirement age to be entitled to a full pension will be gradually increased by three months every year, starting this year, in line with a longstanding pledge by President Emmanuel Macron.

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#NEWZEALAND: PM Ardern Has Lowest Approval Ratings Since 2017 Re-Election

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New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern slipped further in popularity and her Labour Party could face an uphill struggle to retain power next year, a new political poll shows.

Ardern’s rating as preferred prime minister fell to 30% from 33% in May, according to a 1News Kantar poll conducted in the first week of August. Her rating is the lowest since she became prime minister in 2017. The poll was published late Monday in Wellington.

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#FRANCE: Pres. Macron's Poll Numbers Slip Ahead Of April Election

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In less than two weeks French residents will take to the voting booths to decide who will be their next President. 

Emmanuel Macron remains the favorite to win a second term, but his numbers have dipped by four percentage points with one pollster, leading to suggestions he may face tighter competition than initially expected.

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#SWEDEN: Poll Shows Right-Leaning Party Could Win Sept. Election

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A new poll suggests that a right-wing government could enter power after Sweden’s upcoming September elections. But a fragmented political map makes predictions difficult.

The poll, commissioned and published on 11 February by the newspaper close to the Social Democratic Party, Aftonbladet, shows that the Social Democrats continue to be the country’s biggest party with 28.2% support.

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#UK: Poll Shows Labour Well Ahead Of Conservatives

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The Conservative Party has recovered some of its lost lead against the opposition Labour Party, an opinion poll showed last Saturday, but Boris Johnson's personal ratings remain deeply negative as he faces ongoing ethics questions.

Polling company Opinium said Labour's poll rating held at 39% in a January 5-7 survey, unchanged from late December, while support for the Conservatives rose two percentage points to 34%. The Liberal Democrats were on 11% and the Green Party was on 5%.

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#GERMANY: Social Democrat Leader Scholz Holds Lead After Strong Debate Performance

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Who will succeed Angela Merkel as Germany's chancellor? The candidates to become Germany’s next leader faced off in a TV debate, and Social Democrat Olaf Scholz produced a solid performance to maintain his hold as the front-runner. 

Early snap polls suggested that Scholz did enough in the three-way debate to maintain a slim but solid lead over his rivals in the final debate of the election campaign. 

Just moments after the 90-minute debate ended on Germany's public broadcasters, an Infratest dimap poll found that 41% of the 1,500 viewers asked found Scholz the most convincing, a long way ahead of the Christian Democratic Union's (CDU) candidate Armin Laschet and the Green party's Annalena Baerbock, on 27% and 25% respectively. 

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#UK: Poll Shows London Mayor Handily Winning Re-election

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London Mayor Sadiq Khan is coasting towards a clear victory in the battle for re-election against Conservative challenger Shaun Bailey, an exclusive new poll shows today.

The sitting Labour mayor is ahead of his Conservative rival by 47% to 26% with a month to g in the campaign, the YouGov research for the Mile End Institute (MEI) revealed.

But two minor candidates have picked up support from standing starts.

Laurence Fox, the actor and activist running for mayor for the new Reclaim Party, has overtaken other minor candidates to notch up to 4% after just four weeks of campaigning.

Former Wall Street banker Brian Rose, whose social media videos and animated billboards have grabbed attention, is just behind him at 3%.

But the pair are lagging behind Green Party candidate Sian Berry, in third place with 9%, and Liberal Democrat Luisa Porritt, who comes in fourth at 7%.

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

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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.

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#FRANCE: EU Economic Recovery Package Helps Macron In Latest Poll

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French President Emmanuel Macron's popularity shot up by six points in July to reach the 50% threshold in an opinion poll on Wednesday, after clinching a deal with other European leaders on an economic recovery package and reshuffling his government.

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#POLAND: Former EU Pres. Tusk Will Boycott Election; Incumbent Duda Is Likely Winner

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Former European Council president Donald Tusk is appealing for a boycott of the upcoming presidential election in his native Poland, saying the postal vote the government has proposed carries health risks amid the coronavirus pandemic and would not meet democratic standards for free, equal and transparent elections.

Tusk, who served as Poland’s prime minister from 2007 to 2014, said in a video on Twitter that he would not “not take part in the voting procedure" for the May 10 balloting. He said the vote promoted by the right-leaning ruling party “has nothing to do with an election.”

According to the latest election poll conducted by Statista in April 2020, the current President of Poland, Andrzej Duda, has the highest chance of winning next year's presidential election. The poll estimates that he may count on 59% of votes.

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#FRANCE: Pres.Macron's Poll Numbers Rise Over Coronavirus Rrsponse

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French President Emmanuel Macron's popularity rating jumped to a more than two-year high, according to an opinion poll, edging past the 50% mark for the first time since 2018 as voters give his handling of the coronavirus crisis a vote of confidence.

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#UK: Poll Shows Massive Support For Conservatives In Northern Labour Strongholds

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Pollster YouGov showed Labour support is collapsing in the north, with prominent industrial counties - some of which that have voted Labour for decades - Cheshire, Cumbria, Greater Manchester, Lancashire and Merseyside now jumping ship to Tory in a spectacular show of support for Boris Johnson, the Brexiteer Prime Minister.

The poll shows a drop in support for Jeremy Corbyn by an eye-watering 25 points compared to a drop in numbers for Mr Johnson by just three points. This puts the Tories on 33% in the stubborn region that voted overwhelmingly to leave.

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#UK: Poll Shows Johnson's Conservatives Ahead; Labour Being Dragged Down By Leader Corbyn

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Prime Minister Boris Johnson is on course to win a Parliamentary majority in the December 12th national election which would give him the leeway he needs to get his Brexit deal through the House of Commons, a pollster has predicted.

Chris Hopkins, head of politics at ComRes, made his remarks after the publication of its latest Voting Intention poll, suggesting Johnson’s Conservative Party currently enjoys an eight point lead over Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour, a fact he attributed partly retaining the Leave vote better than Labour was managing to retain the Remain vote. Hopkins added negative perceptions of Corbyn himself appear to be hampering his party’s chances - with significantly more people saying they would like to have Christmas dinner with the prime minister.

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#HONGKONG: Leader Carrie Lam's Approval Rating Sinks To New Lows Amid Ongoing Unrest

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Hong Kong  Chief Executive Carrie Lam’s popularity rating has dropped to a record low of 20.2 points out of 100, a recent public opinion survey has found. The rating is the lowest among any post-colonial chief executive, according to the Hong Kong Public Opinion Research Institute.

The institute interviewed 1,038 people between October 17 and 23 over the phone.

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#NEWZEALAND: Polls Show Opposition Gaining On PM Ardern

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This weekend, New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern can blow out the candles on two years in power.

But two polls this month show her coalition government is neck and neck with the opposition National Party, less than a year before the next election.

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#UK: Labour Party Sinks To Third Place In Latest Polling; Reflects Brexit Turmoil

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The UK's Labour Party has been pushed into third place in the polls after Jeremy Corbyn suggested he won’t pick a side in another EU referendum, the latest in a series of policy changes that reflects internal party turmoil over how to deal with the UK's exit from the European Union.

A YouGov poll showed the Liberal Democratic Party at 23% – two points ahead of Labour – following the Lib Dem's change of policy to reverse Brexit without even holding a referendum. Both parties still trail the Tories, who remain at 32%
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#SERBIA: Ruling Party Says Poll Identifying Supporters As "Low Education" Voters Unfairly Labels Citizens As "Third-Grade Losers"

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A large number of the ruling Serbian Progressive Party’s (SNS) voters are pensioners, poor and those with low education or with high school degrees, according to the poll conducted by Birodi. The results of the research have provoked harsh reactions by SNS officials, including its leader and Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic.

The poll has also showed that those who vote for SNS regularly watch the television networks Pink and Happy, which are widely regarded as ruling party’s propaganda tools.

In his op-ed for Politika daily, Vucic said the poll is part of a campaign, “in which is Serbia is being insulted, degraded and its citizens labeled as third-grade losers." The head of SNS parliamentary group Aleksandar Martinovic (photo) has called on the prosecutor’s office to intervene, claiming that Birodi poll was “dangerous phenomena”

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#UK: For The First Time, Upstart Brexit Party Takes Lead In General Election Polling

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A general election poll for Opinium and the Observer newspaper has shown the Brexit Party in first place for the first time in voting intention for parliament (an election which has not yet been called.)

The poll, conducted from May 28 through May 30 indicated the new party preferred by 26% of voters. the Labour Party took second with 22%, followed by Conservatives and Liberal Democrats.

The Brexit Party clobbered the two main parties in the UK in last month's European Union parliamentary elections. Brexit Party: 26% (+2) Labour: 22% (-7) Conservatives: 17% (-5) LibDems: 16% (+5) Greens: 11% (+8) SNP: 4% (nc) Change UK: 1% (-2) Plaid Cymru: 1% (+1) UKIP: 1% (-1) (28th to 30th May)
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