Elections
New Polls Show French National Rally Forging Ahead of Macron
- Far-right party leads among likely voters with 36% support
- Le Pen’s party ahead in poll on trust in handling economy
Marine Le Pen meets with residents during her visit to a local market in Courrieres, France on June 21.
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France’s National Rally continued to cement its lead in opinion polls a week before the country’s snap parliamentary election, largely at the expense of President Emmanuel Macron’s centrist bloc.
Support for Marine Le Pen’s far-right party was pegged at 36% in a survey by Elabe published Sunday in La Tribune Dimanche. That’s ahead of 27% for the left-wing New Popular Front alliance, and just 20% for Macron’s movement.