Elections
Le Pen’s Far Right Keeps Rising Less Than a Week Before Election
- Macron’s party lags in third place behind a leftist alliance
- First round of voting takes place June 30 with second July 7
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Marine Le Pen’s far-right National Rally has made further gains ahead of the first round of France’s snap legislative election on Sunday, according to Bloomberg’s poll of polls, as President Emmanuel Macron faces the increasing likelihood of having to share power with an opposition government.
The party has increased its lead by 0.3 point to 34.2% in Bloomberg’s composite, while a leftist alliance called the New Popular Front, bringing together Socialists, Communists, Greens and the far-left France Unbowed, is second with 28.2%, up 0.1 point. Macron’s Renaissance party and its allies are in third at 20.6%.