The war in Ukraine has brought the countryside to a standstill and Emmanuel Macron has put on his warlord costume.
Propelled on the international scene, the Head of State jumped in the voting intentions in the first round, according to the latest daily Ifop poll for LCI, Paris Match and Sud Radio.
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Credited with 28% (+2), Emmanuel Macron, who has still not declared himself a candidate and whose meeting in Marseille initially scheduled for March 5 has been canceled, consolidates his position as favorite.
Far behind, Marine Le Pen maintains her second position and is credited with 16% of the voting intentions (-0.5) when her nationalist rival, Éric Zemmour, fell in the first round, with 14% (-1.5).
The candidate Les Républicains Valérie Pécresse continues to move away from the podium.
La Francilienne is credited with 13% and loses one point.
On the left, the rebellious Jean-Luc Mélenchon obtains 10.5% and registers a slight drop (-0.5) while the ecologist Yannick Jadot remains stable (5%) like the socialist candidate Anne Hidalgo (2.5% ).
Communist Fabien Roussel fell slightly (3.5%; -0.5) as did Christiane Taubira who obtained 1.5% (-0.5%).
Can this decline on the side of the rebellious as well as Éric Zemmour and Marine Le Pen be explained by their positions considered pro-Russian by their opponents?
While Ukraine was bent under Putin's bombs, words from the Reconquest candidate!
were exhumed: "
The problem of Ukraine is not that Russia threatens an invasion, I do not believe in it.
(...) Russia, I am betting, will not invade Ukraine
,” Eric Zemmour said in December on France 2.
“The United States of America has decided to annex Ukraine in the 'NATO and Russia feels humiliated, threatened, attacked
,' said Jean-Luc Mélenchon for his part at the beginning of February.