Poll: Macron falls below 30%, but remains well ahead of Le Pen

Europe 1 with AFP 4:27 p.m., March 18, 2022

Outgoing President Emmanuel Macron falls below 30% but would still be well ahead of the first round of the presidential election ahead of Marine Le Pen, up to 16%, according to a poll published Friday which confirms the erosion of Valérie Pécresse .

The Ipsos/Sopra Steria survey for

, the Jean-Jaurès foundation and the Sciences Po Political Research Center (Cevipof) was carried out before the presentation of its program on Thursday by the President of the Republic.

Marine Le Pen confirms her 2nd place

The outgoing president is credited with 29% of voting intentions in the first round, losing 1.5 points compared to the previous survey by the same institute at the beginning of the month (30.5%).

The candidate of the National Rally Marine Le Pen consolidates her second place (16%, +1.5).

Behind, the other far-right candidate Eric Zemmour (Reconquête!) is stable at 13% of voting intentions, as is the radical left candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon (People's Union) at 12%.

Candidate LR Valérie Pécresse continues to sink, to 10.5% (-1 point).

On the left, the ecologist Yannick Jadot is almost stable (7%, -0.5 point), ahead of the communist Fabien Roussel and the socialist Anne Hidalgo, who remain respectively at 4% and 2.5% of the voting intentions.

Jean Lassalle (Résistons) and Nicolas Dupont-Aignan (Debout la France) each recorded 2% of the voting intentions, Philippe Poutou (NPA) 1.5% and Nathalie Arthaud (Lutte Ouvrière) brought up the rear with 0.5%.

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.

Survey conducted online from March 10 to 14, among 8,790 people registered on the electoral lists from a representative sample of the French population aged 18 and over, according to the quota method.

Margin of error between 0.3 and 1 percentage point.