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French presidential election race narrows further as shock poll shows tidal wave of support for far-Right candidate Marine Le Pen among young voters as Macron battles to remain in power in tomorrow's showdown

10 April 2022

   
• Shock YouGov poll suggests 56% of voters aged 18 to 24 will back Marine Le Pen
• The far-Right candidate has gained popularity for campaigning on cost of living
• She also has strong views on immigration, the French national identity and Islam

France's presidential election race has narrowed even further as a shock poll found that most young people are planning to back far-Right candidate Marine Le Pen over Emmanuel Macron. A new YouGov survey this week shows that more than half (56 per cent) of voters aged 18 to 24 would back Le Pen, whose National Rally party has vowed to clampdown on immigration, reassert France's national identity and fine Muslims who wear headscarves in public. Other polls project Le Pen taking 47 per cent of the vote to Macron's 53 among the general population — a much closer gap than when the President beat her in the election five years ago.

Just last month, Macron appeared all but certain to become the first French leader to win re-election since Jacques Chirac in 2002. But the polls have narrowed sharply in the past two weeks — a development which he has tried to blame on the war in Ukraine. Le Pen's campaign has been mired by allegations of racism spread by Macron, and this week hit out at the President's 'extremely outrageous' and 'very aggressive' claims...

Analysts question whether Macron would enjoy the same support from a broad anti-far right 'Republican front' coalition that helped him win in 2017 and allowed Jacques Chirac to demolish Marine Le Pen's father Jean-Marie in 2002... Far-right former TV pundit Eric Zemmour made a re-entry into the campaign last year but lost ground, and analysts say he has aided Le Pen by making her appear more moderate. Macron has called for a 'mobilisation' of his supporters, and said that Brexit proves that Le Pen could win with her far-Right views...

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