France's Macron seen winning presidential vote - poll

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France's Macron seen winning presidential vote - poll

REUTERS

 

Emmanuel Macron, head of the political movement En Marche !, or Onwards !, and candidate for the 2017 presidential election, attends a meeting in Reims, France March 17, 2017. REUTERS/Pascal Rossignol

 

PARIS (Reuters) - Centrist Emmanuel Macron is projected to come out on top in the first round of France's presidential election next month ahead of far-right leader Marine Le Pen before going on to win in a runoff, a Harris Interactive poll showed on Thursday.

 

Macron was seen winning 26 percent of the vote in the April 23 first round followed by Le Pen on 25 percent, according to the poll for France Televisions.

 

Both scores were unchanged from the last time the poll was carried out two weeks ago, even though it was carried out after the two traded barbs in a televised debate on Monday involving all the main candidates.

 

Conservative candidate Francois Fillon saw his score slip to 18 percent of the first round vote from 20 percent as he struggles to limit the damage from a series of financial scandals.

 

Meanwhile, far-left candidate Jean-Luc Melenchon saw his share of the vote rise to 13.5 percent, surpassing for the first time the score for the ruling Socialists candidate Benoit Hamon at 12.5 percent.

 

Macron was seen winning the presidency by beating Le Pen in the May 7 runoff with 65 percent of the vote to 35 percent for the National Front leader, unchanged from two weeks ago.

 

The poll was conducted on March 21-22 among 6,383 voters.

 

(Reporting by Leigh Thomas; Editing by Hugh Lawson)

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2017-03-23

[englishinsiam]

Good as Killary and remain were nailed on certs to win.

Go on Marine keep going and bring the whole crooked EU house of cards down.

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[jesimps]

In view of the reliability of recent polls, if I were in Macron's shoes I'd be very frightened.

 

[elgordo38]

The way elections are going today I think the undecided have yet to visit their fortune tellers to figure out where to make their X and there never is a treasure under X marks the spot.

[Aforek]

16 hours ago, englishinsiam said:

Go on Marine keep going and bring the whole crooked EU house of cards down.
 

Poor man ...

[englishinsiam]

Poor man ...

No mate I'm a realist. The EU is a crumbling failed experiment.

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