From 4.7% of the vote in 2017, Nicolas Dupont-Aignan goes this year to 2.2%,
according to Ipsos-Sopra Steria estimates for Le Parisien, France Télévisions and Radio France.
The sovereignist candidate, leader of the Debout la France party, was sharply eliminated in the first round of the presidential election this Sunday.
It was the third time he had tried to run for the Élysée.
His program was mainly focused on the fight against immigration and criticism of the European Union.
But on the far right flank of the political spectrum, he never really managed to compete with Éric Zemmour, Marine Le Pen, or even Les Républicains candidate Valérie Pécresse.
In recent days, in the midst of a period of equal speaking time, he has regularly devoted part of his radio or television interviews to castigating the "system" and the rules in force.
On March 30, he denounced on Franceinfo “a rigged election, an election of an oligarchy, an election which aims to silence people who think differently”.
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Among his brilliant strokes, Nicolas Dupont-Aignan - who assumes not to be vaccinated against Covid-19 -, had notably proposed to appoint Didier Raoult Minister of Health if he were elected to the Élysée.
Will he now put an end to his presidential ambitions?
"I'm going to give it my all.
The smallest catch in the cliff, you have to take it.
This may be the last (campaign), ”he replied at the end of March.