The French president, Emmanuel Macron, a widely favored candidate in next month’s elections that could lead to his re-election, rises sharply in the polls, driven by his visibility in the management of the war in Ukraine and even exceeds the threshold of 30% of voting intentions.
Macron rises four percentage points in one week, from 26.5% to 30.5%, while his most direct rivals fall, according to a survey by the Ipsos-Sopra Steria demographic institute published this Saturday by Le Monde.
His immediate follower is the far-right candidate Marine Le Pen, who is down one point and stands at 14.5%. The other great suitor of the extreme right, Eric Zemmour, goes even further back: two points to 13%. The two are undoubtedly punished for their past support or complacency with Vladimir Putin.
The conservative Valérie Pécresse, who in her case agrees almost entirely with Macron’s position in the response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, also loses one point and stays at 11.5%.
At the other end of the political spectrum, the leader of the radical left Jean-Luc Mélenchon is half a point ahead of Pécresse with 12%.
The Ipsos survey was conducted between Wednesday and Thursday to a representative sample of 3,599 people and highlights what analysts were already advancing: the war should benefit the head of state electorally as a trusted figure in a crisis situation.
According to Le Figaro, which compiles the different surveys published by demoscopic institutes on voting intentions for the presidential elections on April 10 and 24, Macron has established himself as the favorite candidate in recent weeks.
If an average of those published in the last two weeks is taken, it would receive 25.8% of the votes in the first round, followed at a distance by Le Pen (17.2%), Zemmour (13.8%), Pécresse (13.8%) and Mélenchon (11.1%).
The French president, who officially announced his candidacy last Thursday, has been almost completely absorbed in his diplomatic activity for some time, first to try to prevent the war and now to try to stop it and manage some of its consequences.
He has multiplied telephone conversations with other leaders directly involved, including Putin and the Ukrainian president, Volodímir Zelenski.
But also with other opposition figures to the head of the Kremlin, as he did on Friday with the president of the Russian NGO Memorial, Alexandre Tcherkassov, and this Saturday with the Belarusian writer Nobel Prize for Literature Svetlana Alexievich. (I)
Source: Eluniverso
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