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Maxime Tandonnet: "The Republicans have left the monopoly of the opposition to Marine Le Pen"

4/10/2023, 4:22:55 PM


TRIBUNE – The breakthrough of Marine Le Pen in several recent polls is explained by the strategic error of the right LR, analyzes the historian and essayist.

Several recent polls show a dazzling breakthrough for Marine Le Pen.

One of them (Elabe-BFMTV) thus explains that in the event of a presidential election, the latter would exceed 30% in the first round, leading in all cases.

In the event of a Le Pen-Macron duel in the second round, she would even win with 55% of the votes…

Of course, these opinion polls should be viewed with caution.

The presidential elections are more than four years away, and President Macron will not be a candidate… Since his first presidential campaign in 2012, countless polls have announced a surge in the vote in favor of Mrs Le Pen but faced with the reality of the ballot in 2012, 2017 and 2022, she has always been largely defeated.

However, the facts are there: for the first time, the head of the RN is given a clear favorite.

This sudden rise in survey power coincides with the vagaries of pension reform without Ms. Le Pen having shown spectacular activism on this issue.

Her…

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