Are the curves crossing each other?
Two and a half months after her victory in the LR Congress, which had boosted her voting intentions for the 2022 presidential election, Valérie Pécresse seems to be marking time in the polls.
In any case, this is revealed by two studies published on Tuesday, which now place Éric Zemmour a short head ahead of his opponent LR in the first round of the ballot scheduled for April 10 and 24.
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According to a Harris Interactive survey for
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now reaches 14.5% of voting intentions in the first round, behind Marine Le Pen (17.5%) and Emmanuel Macron (25%), but slightly ahead of Valérie Pécresse (14%).
Ditto on the side of Ifop - which renews a third of its panel every day until the deadline -, and gives this Tuesday Emmanuel Macron at 25.5%, Marine Le Pen at 17.5%, Éric Zemmour at 15 .5%, and Valérie Pécresse at 15%.
Although particularly thin - and within the margin of error - this gap could mark the beginning of the dynamic that the polemicist is looking for, and that Les Républicains particularly fear.
Which fear a decline of their candidate in favor of his half-hearted meeting Sunday at the Zenith.
