Far-right parties overtake Macron for first time in France poll

In a further sign of the rise of the far-right across Europe, Marine Le Pen’s Rassemblement National (RN) has overtaken French president Emmanuel Macron’s La République En Marche! (LREM) party in a poll.

The Ifop poll of voting intentions for the May 2019 European Parliament elections showed the RN rising from 17 per cent at the end of August to 21 per cent now, moving ahead of the LREM on 20 per cent for the first time. The RN’s 17 per cent, combined with the 7 per cent of Nicolas Dupont-Aignan’s Debout La France (Stand up France) and one per cent each for Florian Philippot’s Patriots and Francois Asselineau’s pro-‘Frexit’ Popular Republican Union gave far-right parties a combined 30 per cent total...

It also gives further cause to believe that the European elections are shaping up to be a major battle between centrist, pro-EU parties like Macron's LREM and far-right formations that want to stop immigration and globalisation..


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