Macron Overtakes Le Pen in France as Juppe Looms Over Fillon Bid
- Fillon grapples with exodus, vows to maintain candidacy
- Juppe featured on front pages as polls show support remains
Macron Jumps to the Head of the Pack in Odaxa Poll
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Emmanuel Macron overtook the anti-euro candidate Marine Le Pen for the first time in polling for the French presidential election as the clamor grew for Republican Francois Fillon to step aside.
Macron’s support jumped 2 points to 27 percent from a week earlier in an Odoxa survey of first-round voting intentions while Le Pen slipped to 25.5 percent from 27 percent. Yet the March 1 and 2 survey of 951 people also showed that Alain Juppe, defeated by Fillon in the Republican primary, would lead if he was back in the race.