The current French president has lost a point of voting intentions in a week, but remains well ahead of the first round of the presidential election. The candidates of the RN and LR are still neck and neck in the race for the second round, hotly pursued by the far-right polemicist Éric Zemmour.
Emmanuel Macron lost one point of voting intentions in one week (23%) but remains well ahead of the first round of the presidential election, ahead of Marine Le Pen (17%) and Valérie Pécresse (16%), according to the OpinionWay barometer released Thursday. The head of state’s curve, which had reached 26% a month ago, is gradually crumbling pending the formalization of his candidacy, while his competitors are stable, in this daily Kéa survey. Partners for The echoes and Radio Classique. The candidates of the RN and LR are still neck and neck in the race in the second round, within the margin of error, closely followed by the far-right polemicist Éric Zemmour (15%), up one point on a week.
Macron would beat Zemmour by 62% – 38%
On the left, the leader of the Insoumis Jean-Luc Mélenchon loses a point (9%). For his part, the communist candidate Fabien Roussel grabs one (4%), up to the former minister Christiane Taubira and the ecologist Yannick Jadot. Socialist Anne Hidalgo is still in dry dock, at 3%. In the second round, Emmanuel Macron would win in all configurations, with overall stable scores of 55% – 45% against Marine Le Pen, and 53% – 47% against Valérie Pécresse. Emmanuel Macron would beat Éric Zemmour by 62% – 38%.
Voting intentions do not constitute a forecast of the outcome of the ballot. They give an indication of the balance of power and dynamics on the day of the survey. Survey carried out from February 7 to 10 by self-administered online questionnaire, with a sample of 1,648 people registered on the electoral lists, from a sample of 1,772 people representative of the French population aged 18 and over, according to the quota method. The margin of error is between 1.3 and 2.5 points.