Marine Le Pen takes huge lead over Nicolas Sarkozy in French first round presidential election poll

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[zlando]

Front National leader Marine Le Pen has taken a sizeable lead over Nicolas Sarkozy in a new French presidential election poll.

The far-right leader had 29 per cent of the vote when pitted against Les Républicains’ former president, who was eight points behind, and held a 15-point lead over the Parti de Gauche’s Jean-Luc Mélenchon in the poll released by Ipsos.

It was one of five scenarios for the first round of France’s 2017 presidential elections on 23 April, although one that did not include Les Républicains’ Alain Juppe – who remains strong favourite to succeed Francois Hollande as leader.

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[ek_hornbeck]

Great news, but in French elections, a plurality in the first round doesn't win the Presidency. In the second round, Left-wing parties no doubt Sarkozy, who will probably win on account of the coalition.

The consolation is that Sarkozy is probably one of the more sensible politicians in France outside of FN on immigration (unlike establishmentarians like Merkel in Germany and elsewhere in Europe, Sarkozy has acknowledged that African and Arab immigration to his country is a problem), and that he will have no choice but to give FN's views a hearing if he loses by a narrow margin.

[ek_hornbeck]

“If he loses by a narrow margin” should be “If he wins by a narrow margin”

[Nextrush]

Sarkozy has said he is voting for Fillon next week.

[Impy]

I read that the leftists were flooding for Juppe, who it sounds like is definitely to the left of of Fillion, who is probably to the left of Sarko. Juppe seems as bad as Chirac.

My sense is the feeling was Sarko couldn’t beat Juppe so a lot of people who may have gone for him moved to Fillion instead.