The entry ticket for the second round is tighter than ever.
While Emmanuel Macron prances ahead of the voting intentions (23% to 24%) in almost all the polls, the game for second place appears more and more uncertain.
According to a Harris Interactive study for
Challenges
, published Tuesday, Eric Zemmour is sowing trouble by continuing to grow.
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Tested at 13%, the polemicist is given neck and neck with ex-LR Xavier Bertrand (14%), and in a handkerchief with Marine Le Pen (16%).
In case of candidacy of the ex-LR Valérie Pécresse (12%) he would then pass in front of the right (13%).
The gap would widen even more (14%) if it was LR Michel Barnier (8%) who was chosen to represent his political family.
Mélenchon in the lead on the left, ahead of Hidalgo, Jadot and Montebourg
Whatever the scenario, the candidate RN would cap for her at 16% of the vote, twelve points less than at the beginning of June (28%).
A bad dynamic that leaves her unmoved, as she never fails to recall in a small committee.
"
I keep the calm of the old troops,
" she used to repeat when asked about opinion polls.
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On the left, finally, only Jean-Luc Mélenchon can be satisfied with the results.
With 13% (+3 compared to the beginning of September), the leader of France Insoumise wins by distancing the socialist Anne Hidalgo (7%), the ecologist Yannick Jadot (6%), and the sovereignist Arnaud Montebourg (2%).
It remains to be seen whether he will benefit from a postponement of the votes of the supporters of Sandrine Rousseau.
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