Are the polls the arbiter of French politics?
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Verification of an identity card during the second round of the left-wing primary for the 2017 French presidential election, in Trappes on January 29, 2017. AFP - CHRISTOPHE ARCHAMBAULT
By: Romain Auzouy
1 min
They multiply and place Eric Zemmour ever higher: the polls are widely talked about, six months before the first round of the presidential election in France.
The latest, a Harris Interactive poll published this Wednesday, October 13, announces the polemicist - who has not declared himself a candidate - with a score of 17% to 18% qualifying him for the second round of the election against the outgoing Emmanuel Macron .
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History shows that polls are far from an exact science, yet they are being scrutinized more and more.
How to explain this phenomenon ?
How much credit can we give to surveys?
What do they say about current political life?
To discuss it
:
- Emmanuel Rivière
, international director for political studies at Kantar Public
- Stéphane Hoynck
, secretary general of the polling commission
- Benjamin Morel
, doctor of political science from the École normale supérieure Paris-Saclay, and lecturer in public law at the University of Paris II Panthéon-Assas
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