(Paris) Valérie Pécresse loses a point in one week (16%) and passes behind Marine Le Pen, stable at 17%, in the race for the second round of the presidential election, behind Emmanuel Macron (stable at 24%), according to the barometer OpinionWay published Thursday.
Posted at 2:13 p.m.
This is the second week in a row that candidate LR has lost a point over a week, in this daily Kéa Partners survey for Les Échos and Radio Classique.
The far-right candidate Éric Zemmour is given 14%, up one point.
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Support for the candidate of the National Rally party Marine Le Pen is stable at 17%. Éric Zemmour, of the Reconquest party, gains one point, at 14%.
On the left, the candidate of the party La France insoumise Jean-Luc Mélenchon also wins a point, with 10% of voting intentions.
Christiane Taubira, who came out on top on Sunday in the popular primary, lost a point to 4% and passed behind the ecologist Yannick Jadot, stable at 5%. The socialist Anne Hidalgo is also stable at 3%, at the level of the communist Fabien Roussel.
In the second round, Emmanuel Macron would win in both configurations, with stable scores: 56%-44% against Marine Le Pen, and 53-47% against Valérie Pécresse. Emmanuel Macron would beat Éric Zemmour by 61%-39%.
Macron has his 500 sponsorships
Not yet officially a candidate, Emmanuel Macron crossed the threshold of the 500 signatures of elected officials necessary for the presidential election on the first Thursday. Far ahead of its competitors who are battling the countryside in regions looking for a new dynamic.
In France, under an electoral system that discourages non-serious candidacies, candidates must obtain the sponsorship of 500 elected officials, including deputies, senators, mayors, municipal and departmental councilors, and many other elected officials. This requirement has often been criticized as being too restrictive.
With 529 sponsorships, the outgoing president took off ahead of his right-wing rival Valérie Pécresse (324 signatures) and the socialist candidate Anne Hidalgo (266), barely in the opinion polls, but with a party with local relays well grounded.
At 66 days from the first round, the sponsorship figures remain largely unrelated to voting intentions: on the far right, Marine Le Pen has so far only collected 35 and her rival Éric Zemmour, 58, while that they are engaged in a fierce battle with Ms. Pécresse to qualify for the second round.
Four other candidates cross the bar of 100 sponsorships: the communist Fabien Roussel (159), the candidate of Lutte Ouvrière Nathalie Arthaud (138), the Insoumis Jean-Luc Mélenchon (100), leading the polls on the left (around 10 %), as well as Jean Lassalle (124).
Others are struggling more like the ecologist Yannick Jadot with 80 sponsorships and especially Christiane Taubira with only 8 on the clock. The Constitutional Council posts on its website twice a week, on Tuesdays and Thursdays, the list updated in real time.
But the games are not over: the candidates have until March 4 at 6 p.m. to collect the precious support.