French people underestimating the support for Marine Le Pen, says Socialist party leader
FRENCH people are greatly underestimating the popularity of presidential hopeful Marine Le Pen, said the Socialist party's Jean-Christophe Cambadélis.
French people are greatly underestimating the popularity of Marine Le Pen, says a French politician
The first secretary of the deeply divided left-wing party said Ms Le Pen had a rock-solid and growing support base.
Speaking to RTL radio, Mr Cambadélis said: “I think that people are underestimating Mrs Le Pen’s score and her popularity among right-wing voters... Right now, she’s busy widening her support base… Her campaign wasn’t great, but, despite that, she made it through to the election’s second round.”
The Socialist official continued, making a thinly veiled reference to presidential favourite Emmanuel Macron’s political movement En Marche!, or Forward!.
He said: “Polls are saying that she will win some 40 per cent of the vote in the runoff election. That’s an extra one million votes. Mrs Le Pen is ‘en marche,’ (moving forward) if I may say so.”
Socialist party leader Jean-Christophe Cambadélis
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The Socialist party leader added that Mr Macron, a former economy minister and the winner of the first round of the two-stage presidential election, had “lacked gravity” whilst delivering his victory speech on Sunday night.
The socialist leader said Ms Le Pen had a rock-solid and growing support base
Mr Cambadélis said: “He was pleased, but wrongly assumed that his victory was a done deal. But nothing is set in stone; the presidential race isn’t over yet.”
An Ifop-Fiducial poll for Paris Match, Cnews and Sud Radio published on Monday predicted that Mr Macron would win the final round runoff against Ms Le Pen on May 7 with 60 per cent of the vote.