The leader of the French National Rally party faction, Marine Le Pen, would have won the first round of the presidential election if the elections had been held at that time, according to the results of a survey conducted on February 7 by the French Institute of Public Opinion (Ifop) for the publication Valeurs actuelles.
The survey revealed that Le Pen would have received the support of 36% of those surveyed in the first round of the elections, while her closest competitors, the current French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal and the former head of government Edouard Philippe, would have received only 22% of the votes. . For their part, 14% of those surveyed would vote for the leftist Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
It is known that the survey was carried out over two days, from January 31 to February 1. The sample was made up of just over a thousand respondents.
Source: Rossa Primavera
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