Could Marine Le Pen be the next President of the Republic? According to an Ifop survey for Current values, the president of the National Rally group in the National Assembly tops the voting intentions for the first round of the presidential election if it took place next Sunday, and is equal in the second round, whether her opponent is Gabriel Attal or Édouard Philippe.
“The West is turning towards slightly more authoritarian systems”
According to Franz-Olivier Giesbert, journalist and writer, guest of La Grande interview Europe 1-CNews on Friday, Marine Le Pen could take the helm of the Élysée in three years. “Marinism is like a rising sea. We must not tell ourselves stories. There is a general movement in the West, it is not just specific to France, look at the polls for Trump in the States “United States, Meloni in Italy, the AFD in Germany, the West does not feel good and is therefore turning to slightly more authoritarian systems,” he observed.
In this poll, Marine Le Pen received 36% of voting intentions in the first round (+3 points in one month), ahead of the Macronist candidate, at 22%, regardless of whether he is the current Prime Minister (-1 point ) or his predecessor Edouard Philippe (-3 points). Jean-Luc Mélenchon comes third, at 14% (+1 point) in both hypotheses.
A result which could be explained for example by a lack of immigration control, according to Franz-Olivier Giesbert. “340,000 first-time residence permits issued, 140,000 asylum requests, between 600,000 and 900,000 illegal immigrants in France,” he listed. “That means that we have the equivalent of a city like Marseille which arrives in France every year,” he said, regretting the lack of direction from the executive.
In the end, Emmanuel Macron “will remain as the president who opened the doors to the National Rally, to Marine Le Pen. In History, this is what we will remember, as we remember from Obama that it is he who opened the doors for Trump,” said the author of the essay Intimate history of the Fifth Republic. Volume 3, French tragedy.