He wished Macron a victory to prevent it from happening .. A French minister expects: the leader of the extreme right, Le Pen, wins the presidency in 2022

French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said on Saturday that the leader of the far-right opposition, Marine Le Pen, may win the country's presidential elections in 2022.

He added that he hoped President Emmanuel Macron would seek a second term and help prevent that from happening.

"We all know that the election of the leader of the far-right National Rally Party, Marine Le Pen, is a possibility. It is a possibility and that should be opposed ... I hope Macron will run and be re-elected," Le Maire told BFM.

Le Pen (the leader of the far-right National Rally) lost to Macron in the 2017 elections.

Opinion polls indicate that she will be Macron's main competitor in next year's elections.

Le Maire hopes President Macron will seek a second term (Anatolia)

Law proposal

At the end of last month, Le Pen revealed a proposed law to prevent what she called "extremist thought", including expanding the ban on the headscarf to include the public space in the country. She also talked about a global war waged by this thought, and a plan to eliminate it, as she put it.

Le Pen said that she had a plan to eliminate "extremist ideologies" and likened the "extremist Islamic attack" as a comprehensive and global war, the first in the 21st century, as she put it.

The leader of the far-right considered that what she called "radical Islamic thought" was developing within the country's departments and companies.

Macron expected to defeat Le Pen in the second round (Reuters)

An advanced position

It is noteworthy that Le Pen - who ran twice in the presidential elections and defeated the last one by a large margin (with 33% of the vote) by Macron - occupies an advanced position in the voting intentions for the 2022 elections.

A Harris Inter Active poll, which was published in several newspapers, predicted that Le Pen would hardly defeat Macron in the second round of the upcoming elections, by obtaining 48% of the vote.

Le Pen's winning hypothesis was deemed "credible and even reasonable."

But experts warn that it is still too early to judge opinion polls, as no institution expected Macron to win the 2017 elections, until shortly before the polling date.