PARIS, (APP/AFP): French President Francois Hollande would be crushed if he stood for re-election next year, according to a new opinion poll published on Tuesday.
Already France’s least-loved president, Hollande would be routed in the first round of voting, the survey for newspaper Le Figaro and TV news channel LCI said.
The Socialist leader would get between 11 and 15 percent of the vote
according to nine possible combinations of the various candidates, according to the poll by TNS Sofres-OnePoint.
The figures suggest the run-off vote would be contested between the
conservative Republicans party and the far-right National Front, a scenario
last seen in 2002.
The poll was conducted between September 2 and 5 among 1,006 voters.
Hollande, mired in deep unpopularity over his handling of the economy, has yet to announce whether he will run for a second term.
In a book published month, he was quoted as saying he had “the desire” to run, but would not put his name forward “if the signs are that it could not lead to a possibility of victory.”
Under France’s presidential system, if no one garners an absolute majority in the first round, the two front-runners participate in a runoff.
On the right, the Republicans will hold primaries in November that are likely to be a two-horse race between former president Nicolas Sarkozy and former premier Alain Juppe.
The National Front, meanwhile, will be championed by Marine Le Pen, the daughter of the party’s outspoken founder, Jean-Marie Le Pen.
The survey found that Le Pen and either Sarkozy or Juppe would qualify for the second round on the basis of current voting intentions.
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