Campaign posters for Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen Image: Benoit Tessier via PA Images Campaign posters for Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen Image: Benoit Tessier via PA Images VETERAN FRENCH FAR-right leader Marine Le Pen is closing the gap on President Emmanuel Macron ahead of a possible election duel between the two of them next month, two new polls show.
If they faced each other in the second round, a poll by the Ifop-Fiducial group published yesterday indicated Macron would win by just 53% versus 47% for Le Pen, who had gained three points in a week. But the shift in momentum is being seized on by Le Pen and her anti-immigration National Rally party, with between a quarter and a third of voters believed to be undecided about how to cast their ballots.
“Everything is going up … put yourself in the position of a French family. It can’t carry on, people will go nuts,” one 46-year-old salesman told him. Macron has denied that his governments used consultants more than their predecessors, while adding that additional help was required during the height of the Covid-19 pandemic when ministries and civil servants were stretched thin.
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