French election 2017: Emmanuel Macron to trounce Marine Le Pen in runoff vote, poll shows
EMMANUEL Macron is expected to beat firebrand Marine Le Pen with 61 per cent of the vote in the French election runoff next month, the latest Ifop-Fiducial poll shows.
Emmanuel Macron is expected to beat firebrand Marine Le Pen with 61 per cent of the vote
Mrs Le Pen, who came second in the first round of voting on Sunday with 21.3 per cent of the vote, is expected to garner 39 per cent of the vote in the runoff against centrist Mr Macron.
The poll for Paris Match, Cnews and Sud Radio also showed that voters who supported scandal-hit centre-right candidate François Fillon in the election’s first round would, for the most part, cast their second-round vote for Mr Macron.
Some 47 per cent of Fillon supporters said they would be voting for the 39-year-old centrist in the May 7 runoff, while 26 per cent said that they would be voting for hard-right candidate Mrs Le Pen.
Those who voted for far-left rebel Jean-Luc Mélenchon in the first round – 48 per cent – will be voting for Mr Macron in the second round and 19 per cent will be voting for Mrs Le Pen, according to the poll.
The result was shown in the latest Ifop-Fiducial poll
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And 83 per cent of those who voted for Socialist Benoît Hamon will be voting for Mr Macron while 7 per cent will vote for Mrs Le Pen, the poll showed.
But some 61 per cent of French voters think that Mrs Le Pen is leading a successful second-round campaign, compared to 48 per cent for Mr Macron, according to a Harris Interactive poll for RMC and Atlantico published on Wednesday.
More than half – 52 per cent – of those interviewed said that the centrist’s second-round campaign got off to a terrible start, compared to 39 per cent for Mrs Le Pen.
Mrs Le Pen came second in the first round of voting on Sunday with 21.3 per cent of the vote
1,416 registered French voters were interviewed between April 23 and April 25 for the poll
In addition, 43 per cent of those polled said that Mr Macron was wrong to celebrate his first round win on Sunday by dining at la Rotonde, an upmarket Paris brasserie, with his aides and a handful of celebrities.
A total of 1,416 registered French voters were interviewed between April 23 and April 25 for the Ifop-Fiducial poll.
A total of 1,030 registered French voters were interviewed on April 25 for the Harris Interactive poll.