Le Pen seen ahead in first round of French election, losing second - poll


  • World
  • Thursday, 09 Mar 2017

Marine Le Pen, French National Front (FN) political party leader and candidate for French 2017 presidential election, visits a chocolate maker in Chalezeule, eastern France, March 8, 2017. REUTERS/Sebastien Bozon/Pool

PARIS (Reuters) - French far-right leader Marine Le Pen is seen well ahead in the first round of the presidential election but losing the second round by a wide margin to independent centrist Emmanuel Macron, an opinion poll showed on Thursday.

The monthly Cevipof survey for Le Monde newspaper has a much larger sample than most French election polls, with over 15,000 people surveyed.

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