A survey has rocked the French political class. The survey, released Wednesday by Le Parisien, placed on top of the first round for a hypothetical presidential election, the current leader of the French extreme right, Marine Le Pen, president of the National Front since two months ago to replace his father, Jean Marie.
The data show that Le Pen has 23% of the vote, Martine Aubry, currently first secretary of the French Socialist Party (PS), obtained 21%, and Nicolas Sarkozy is in third place with a rate similar to Aubry . That is, according to this survey, a hypothetical second round would dispute Marine Le Pen and Aubry.
In 2002, Jean-Marie Le Pen played the second round of presidential Jacques Chirac, beating the then Socialist candidate, Lionel Jospin. The company that conducted the survey, Harris Interactive, has announced that, given the significance of the result, it is possible to repeat including other socialist candidates now have more popular appeal than Aubry, the only member of the PS contained.
Thus, the new poll will be the current president of the International Monetary Fund, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, today the politician, both the right and the left, which raises more support in France. Anyway, beyond that Strauss-Kahn had been another survey, the survey reflects an indisputable fact which worries many of the French political class: the unstoppable rise of the far right and Marine Le Pen.
This, in an interview yesterday to a French television channel, he asserted, brimming: "I throw to win, not to appear." Socialist Party spokesman in Parliament, Jean-Marc Ayrault, described the poll as a "symptom of a deeper malaise." For his part, Secretary General of the UMP, Jean-François Cope, downplayed the importance of the survey, advising not "overrated."
The data show that Le Pen has 23% of the vote, Martine Aubry, currently first secretary of the French Socialist Party (PS), obtained 21%, and Nicolas Sarkozy is in third place with a rate similar to Aubry . That is, according to this survey, a hypothetical second round would dispute Marine Le Pen and Aubry.
In 2002, Jean-Marie Le Pen played the second round of presidential Jacques Chirac, beating the then Socialist candidate, Lionel Jospin. The company that conducted the survey, Harris Interactive, has announced that, given the significance of the result, it is possible to repeat including other socialist candidates now have more popular appeal than Aubry, the only member of the PS contained.
Thus, the new poll will be the current president of the International Monetary Fund, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, today the politician, both the right and the left, which raises more support in France. Anyway, beyond that Strauss-Kahn had been another survey, the survey reflects an indisputable fact which worries many of the French political class: the unstoppable rise of the far right and Marine Le Pen.
This, in an interview yesterday to a French television channel, he asserted, brimming: "I throw to win, not to appear." Socialist Party spokesman in Parliament, Jean-Marc Ayrault, described the poll as a "symptom of a deeper malaise." For his part, Secretary General of the UMP, Jean-François Cope, downplayed the importance of the survey, advising not "overrated."
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