Lille (AFP)

The ex-LR president of Hauts-de-France Xavier Bertrand, potential right-wing candidate for the 2022 presidential elections, is again given the lead in voting intentions for the regional elections, ahead of RN candidate Sébastien Chenu, according to an Ipsos poll unveiled Wednesday.

With a center-right list supported by LR and the UDI, he would collect 35% of the votes in the first round if the ballot took place next Sunday, in front of an RN list led by the party spokesperson Sébastien Chenu (32%) , according to this survey carried out for France Télévisions and Radio France.

The list of left-wing union led by the ecologist Karima Delli, supported in particular by EELV, the PS, LFI, the PCF or Génération.s, would come in third position with 20% of the votes, followed by that of Laurent Piertraszewski, supported by LREM and the Modem (10%).

Among those polled, 56% say they have made a "final choice", 44% assuring that it "can still change".

Xavier Bertrand would also win in all the hypotheses of the second round, collecting 36% in a quadrangular, still ahead of Sébastien Chenu at 33%.

Called to select the "three questions which seem to them the most worrying for Hauts-de-France" from a list, the inhabitants cite the Covid-19 epidemic at 42%, before unemployment (38%) and delinquency ( 35%).

Then come immigration (30%), purchasing power (24%) and social inequalities (21%).

Asked about the results of the outgoing majority led by Xavier Bertrand, 63% believe that it has done a good job, 6% judging it "excellent", against 23% "mediocre" and 9% "bad".

Survey carried out from April 29 to May 3 on the internet with a representative sample of 1,000 people registered on the region's electoral lists, established using the quota method.

According to another BVA survey for Orange and RTL published on Monday, Xavier Bertrand would be slightly ahead of Sébastien Chenu in the first round (with 33% of the vote against 31%), and would largely win in the event of a triangular with the left.

But he would be closely followed by the RN (36% of the vote against 34%) if Mr. Pietraszewski, was maintained in the second round.

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