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Right Leader Le Pen and Hard-Left Mélenchon Positioned for French Presidential Run-Off, Polls Show

Le Pen leads the first round with 35% to 36%, while Mélenchon would face her in the runoff and Philippe falls short, the poll shows.

  • On Monday, a Toluna Harris Interactive survey indicated that French far-right candidate Marine Le Pen and far-left contender Jean-Luc Melenchon are poised to reach the presidential run-off vote next year.
  • Le Pen, leading the National Rally, is seen winning 35% to 36% in the first round, up from 33% in mid-September, while Melenchon of France Unbowed polls between 17% and 18%.
  • Leading centrist hopeful Edouard Philippe was seen winning 13% to 16%, insufficient to reach the run-off, as centrists fall behind amid rising prices and economic instability.
  • The survey suggests Le Pen would win 69% of the vote against Melenchon and 57% against Philippe in a second-round match-up, according to data gathered September 22 to 24.
  • Scheduled for next April and May, the election approaches as Le Pen appeared in Paris at Place de la Concorde on Saturday for an open-air Mass during Pope Leo's journey.
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French far-right candidate Marine Le Pen and far-left presidential candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon are expected to reach the second round of the presidential election. The above applies to next year's elections, in all five scenarios examined, in a poll released today. What a poll showed about the presidential elections in France The results of the survey show that French voters may be faced with a showdown between the extremes in these elections,…

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Le Pen, who leads the far-right National Rally (RN) party, appears set to win 35% to 36% in the first round - Mélenchon, leader of the France Indépendant party, will be Le Pen's opponent in the second round, winning between 17% and 18%, according to the poll.

·Marousi, Greece
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Lean Right

Le Pen vs. Mélenchon 69:31, vs. Philippe 57:43, poll shows

·Belgrade, Serbia
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Marine Le Pen, candidate of the National Rally, would lead Édouard Philippe and Jean-Luc Mélenchon in the second round of the presidential election, according to a Toluna-Harris Interactive poll. She would win 57% of the vote...

Center

According to this poll, the leader of the RN MPs would win the presidential election with 57% of the vote if she found herself in front of the candidate Horizons Édouard Philippe (43%) and with 69% of the vote against the insoumis candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon (31%). The study also shows that behind a Marine Le Pen hegemonic, between 35 and 36% in the first round, the Insoumis tribe would beat the mayor of Le Havre, whether the social-democratic …

·Issy-les-Moulineaux, France
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frognews.bg broke the news on Saturday, September 26, 2026.
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