Marine Le Pen Seizes On French Chaos
A Reuters poll showed Le Pen at 38% after the unrest, widening her lead as rivals argued over who organized the violence.
- The riots sweeping France have boosted Marine Le Pen to 38 per cent in polls, positioning her as the sole candidate capable of restoring order ahead of spring elections.
- Nationwide unrest intensified on Saturday when students joined a revived Yellow Vests or Gilets Jaunes movement, which had organized protests on social media long before the current demonstrations began.
- French officials blamed the hard-left political movement of Jean-Luc Mélenchon, though the Paris prosecutor said she "absolutely cannot confirm" that rioters were "politically aligned with the far left."
- Current polling shows Mélenchon and Glucksmann vying for second at about 16 per cent, with Reuters Polls suggesting a landslide Le Pen victory in a potential second-round run-off.
- Emphasizing "authority and security," Le Pen declared that in six months French voters will choose "the path of hope," casting the riots as a crisis of faith in President Emmanuel Macron.
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Le Pen is the only candidate who comes out reinforced from recent events and consolidates her image as a representative of order
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SIC NotíciasAccording to IFOP's head of opinion polls, the French far-right leader is the only candidate to emerge reinforced by the disturbances that marked the weekend in France.
The far left is so destructive that it ends up destroying itself. The revolutionary violence on the streets of France will help Marine Le Pen to be elected President of France
For now, there is only one clear winner in the chaos that has engulfed France: Marine Le Pen.
In a survey started on October 17 at 8 p.m. and ended on October 19, after the riots, the candidate of the National Rally collects between 34% and 38% of the voting intentions in the first round, according to the configurations. In the three hypotheses allowing a comparison with the previous wave, made from October 12 to 14, she wins one to two points. The calendar gives these results a special resonance, without allowing to attribute to the vio…
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