how is Marine doing?
Right now, among the twenty-two candidates from the various parties.....she’s mostly in the top three...usually resting between 20 and 28 percent. Hollande (present President) pulls 12 to 15 percent nationally. Sarkozy pulls 20-to-24 percent nationally. Juppe (from French Republican Party) is pulling 30-to-36 percent and is virtually guaranteed to be one of the final two.
Only other candidate worth mentioning is Jean-Luc Melenchon, far-left party....who is pulling around 13-to-15 percent. The rest of the candidates are all 1-to-10 percent players.
Juppe was on the fast track in the mid-90s to be President and just never took off. Has come back in the last three years as some respected guy in public. Issue I see is that he’s 71 and this is a five-year deal if he wins.
French public want an extreme change from Hollande....more stringent measures to stop the terrorism. So the final two candidates in May....whoever they are....will be conservative individuals.