France Sees Three-Way Race for President as Fillon Bounce Fades
- Socialist Party’s Valls would be well out of run-off range
- Terrorism and unemployment cited as most important issues
FN leader Marine Le Pen.
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France’s presidential election -- once seen as a contest between populist candidate Marine Le Pen and the traditional center-right’s Francois Fillon -- is turning into a tight three-way race as Fillon loses ground and independent Emmanuel Macron gains support.
“With four months to go until the first round, nothing is decided, nothing is pre-determined,” Yves-Marie Cann, head of political studies at Elabe wrote in a Twitter post. “As always, the campaign will be decisive.”