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Len Pen Still Ahead in The First Round Polls
Opinion polls for the first round of voting the French elections continue to favour far-right candidate Marine Le Pen for victory though En Marche! Candidate Emmanuel Macron now trails by only one point according to polling by PresiTrack OpinionWay / ORPI for Les Echos & Radio Classique.
Le Pen currently holds 25% of the polling while Macron tracks with 24%, Francois Fillon behind at 21% and finally Benoit Hamon, the socialist candidate, coming in last with 16%. Support for Fillon, though diminished somewhat, remains intact despite recent a very public scandal recently regarding him paying his wife for “fake work.” Speaking this week, Fillon declared that he would remain in the Presidential campaign and that reports regarding the alleged scandal were simply “fake assassination” aimed at removing the center-right candidate.
Read more: https://www.orbex.com/blog/2017/03/french-elections-update-le-pen-win-probability-overblown/