French President Emmanuel Macron said on Monday that he will announce his decision on his candidacy for re-election “in due time”, while several personalities from the left and the right have already launched their campaign.
“I will announce my decision in due course. I will continue to fight until the end. We still have a lot of things to do. (…) So answer to the next episode “, declared the Head of State during a trip to an agricultural high school in Creuse.
In an interview with Le Parisien in early January, his first of the year, Emmanuel Macron had expressed his “desire” to run for the next presidential election to be held in two rounds, April 10 and April 24, 2022.
“There is no false suspense. I want to. As soon as there are the sanitary conditions that allow it and I have clarified this subject, in myself and in relation to the political equation, I will say what it is with the same freedom because I do not want nothing forbid me. I’ve always been free, that’s what allowed me to do “, he had said.
According to a new poll published on Saturday, Emmanuel Macron remains at the top of the voting intentions in the first round of this election.
The poll, conducted by Ipsos-Sopra Steria for Le Monde, the Jean-Jaurès Foundation and Cevipof (Sciences Po’s political research center), among a strong panel of 12,500 people shows that Emmanuel Macron would easily come out on top. of the first round of the ballot, with 25% of the voting intentions, ahead of Valérie Pécresse, the candidate of the Republicans (LR), and Marine Le Pen, that of the National Rally (RN), who are tied at 15.5%.
In the second round, the outgoing president would win against Valérie Pécresse (54% against 46%), and more broadly against Marine Le Pen (57% against 43%), again according to this poll.
Eric Zemmour would get 13% of the voting intentions in the first round.
On the left, no candidate would reach the bar of 10% of the vote. Thus, Jean-Luc Mélenchon (LFI) would come first in voting intentions with 8%, ahead of Yannick Jadot (EELV, 7%), Christiane Taubira (5%) and Anne Hidalgo (PS, 3.5%), according to this survey.
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