The Guardian poll
Barack Obama has made a last-minute intervention in the French presidential election in support of Emmanuel Macron, saying “the success of France matters to the entire world”.
Macron, a centrist, faces Marine Le Pen of the far-right Front National in a runoff vote on Sunday. Polls put him 20 points ahead.
Obama said he supported Macron because he appealed to “people’s hopes and not their fears” and ended his message with the words “Vive la France.”
Opinionway Poll (Newsweek)
French presidential frontrunner Emmanuel Macron’s new party could storm to victory with as many as 286 parliamentary seats in the June elections, according to a poll.
But the survey, which is the first to cover the parliamentary race since 2014, found that neither party represented by the presidential candidates would win an absolute majority by itself in Parliament.
The poll by Opinionway projects 240-286 seats for En Marche!, 200-210 for the center-right Republicans and their allies the Union of Democrats and Independents (UDI), 15 to 25 seats for the far-right National Front, and a collapse for the Socialist Party, which, it says, will fall to between 28 and 43 seats from its current 280.
Elabe poll (Reuters)
French Independent centrist Emmanuel Macron extended his lead in the polls over far-right candidate Marine Le Pen three days ahead of the presidential runoff, according to an Elabe poll for BFM TV and L'Express released on Friday.
Macron is seen getting 62 percent of the votes in the second round compared to 38 percent for Le Pen, an increase of three points for the centrist candidate compared to his projected score in the last Elabe poll.
Reference: The Guardian, Reuters, Newsweek
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