Presidential: Macron slightly increases his lead over his pursuers according to a poll

Europe 1 with AFP 10:40 a.m., February 10, 2022

President Emmanuel Macron, who has not yet formalized his candidacy for the presidential election in April, slightly increases his lead in the first round over his pursuers Marine Le Pen, Valérie Pécresse, and Eric Zemmour, indicates a poll published on Wednesday.

The president wins a point at 26% of voting intentions in this survey by the Elabe Institute for BFMTV, L'Express and SFR carried out online on Monday and Tuesday, with a sample of 1,488 people, including 1,370 registered on the electoral lists .

The margin of error is between 1.1 and 3.1 percentage points.

-1 point for Marine Le Pen and Valérie Pécresse

Her two pursuers, RN candidate Marine Le Pen and Valérie Pécresse (LR), both lose one point, to 15.5% and 15% respectively.

Just behind them, the far-right polemicist Eric Zemmour wins, for his part, half a point with 13% of voting intentions.

On the left, the first classified is the Insoumis Jean-Luc Mélenchon who reaches 10% by gaining half a point, ahead of the ecologist Yannick Jadot (stable at 4.5%), the communist Fabien Roussel who is at 4 % (+1.5 points), Christiane Taubira who lost 2.5 points to 3.5% and the socialist Anne Hidalgo who lost half a point to 1.5%.

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In the event of a second round as in 2017 between Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen, the outgoing president would win by 56% against 44%, unchanged from the end of January.

His victory would be narrower against Valérie Pécresse (54% against 46%), the gap narrowing by 1.5 points compared to the end of January.

If Eric Zemmour reached the second round, he would be clearly beaten by Emmanuel Macron (64% against 36%).

Voting intentions do not constitute a forecast of the outcome of the vote.

They give an indication of the balance of power and dynamics on the day of the survey.