BVA’s weekly poll, released last night and published in the French regional press today, may well mark a turning point in the 2017 Presidential campaign. For the first time in any poll Jean-Luc Mélenchon has drawn level with Francois Fillon, on 19 per cent, while the two leading contenders, Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen, […]
Tag: France Presidential 2017
France moves towards a four-horse race
We now have two polls entirely completed after the second Presidential TV debate and they confirm that Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s highly-regarded performance on Tuesday evening is translating into improved voting intentions, just as happened after the first debate. In Odoxa’s survey for Le Point out this Friday afternoon, the leftist candidate achieves his best result of […]
Mélenchon notches up second debate ‘win’
Two week ago Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s superior performance in the first French Presidential TV debate provided the launching pad for a rapid surge in the polls, taking him clearly ahead of Benoit Hamon. Last night’s second encounter again saw the France Insoumise candidate being considered the winner according to two instant opinion polls. 6.6 […]
Horror week for Hamon, momentum for Mélenchon
Parti Socialiste Presidential candidate Benoit Hamon ended a dreadful week confronted by an Odoxa poll for Le Point, released on Friday evening, giving him a record low of just 8 per cent in first round voting intentions. On Wednesday came the blow of former PM Manuel Valls, the man Hamon defeated in the PS primary, […]
France: Hamon near parity with Mélenchon
On a day when leftist candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon brought a claimed 130,000 supporters of his France Insoumise movement onto the streets of Paris, the weekly BVA poll showed him within just half a point of Parti Socialiste rival Benoit Hamon. Sinking to 12.5 per cent of first round voting intentions, Hamon reaches a […]
Good week for Macron, Le Pen – Hamon slides
Emmanuel Macron capped off another good campaign week in this evening’s Ifop/Fiducial poll as he stretched his advantage over the trailing Francois Fillon to a high of eight points, while staying neck-and-neck with Marine Le Pen in first round voting intentions. The centrist candidate and founder of the En Marche! movement also delivered a solid […]