{"id":1336871,"date":"2022-02-24T10:24:07","date_gmt":"2022-02-24T15:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1336871"},"modified":"2022-02-24T10:24:13","modified_gmt":"2022-02-24T15:24:13","slug":"le-pen-surges-in-presidential-polls-as-centre-right-candidate-plummets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/le-pen-surges-in-presidential-polls-as-centre-right-candidate-plummets\/","title":{"rendered":"Le Pen Surges in Presidential Polls As Centre-Right Candidate Plummets"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fle-pen-surges-in-presidential-polls-as-centre-right-candidate-plummets%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1336871&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/GettyImages-1238688910-e1645651998769-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Populist presidential candidate Marine Le Pen has surged in recent polling, while centre-right Les R\u00e9publicains candidate Val\u00e9rie P\u00e9cresse has slumped amid serious allegations of voting irregularities within her party.<\/p>\n<p>Polls released this week have seen National Rally (RN) leader Marine Le Pen surge into a comfortable second place in the French presidential race, well ahead of her main rivals,\u00a0Val\u00e9rie P\u00e9cresse and conservative pundit and writer Eric Zemmour.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>A Harris Interactive poll <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EuropeElects\/status\/1496488961434427393?s=20&#038;t=bBALJskGIuSTstmFlhiF9A\">released<\/a> on Wednesday put Le Pen at 17 per cent, behind current President Emmanuel Macron who scored 24 per cent in the polling for the first round of the French presidential elections.<\/p>\n<p>The poll saw Zemmour in third place with 15.5 per cent and Ms P\u00e9cresse in fourth with 13.5 per cent. A similar result was seen in an Elabe poll, which put Le Pen at 18 per cent, Zemmour at 13.5 per cent and P\u00e9cresse at just 11.5 per cent.<\/p>\n<p>The surge for Le Pen comes as previous polls released earlier this month had put her and Ms P\u00e9cresse <a href=\"https:\/\/www.opinion-way.com\/fr\/barometre-opinionway-kea-partners-election-presidentielle-2022\">neck-and-neck<\/a> for second place and the ability to face off in the second round against President Macron.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Le Pen Suspends Presidential Campaigning Over Lack of Official Sponsorships<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Y2VnPCGP6J\">https:\/\/t.co\/Y2VnPCGP6J<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1496409498126327809?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 23, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Despite the gains in the polls, Le Pen has experienced some difficulties in her campaign in recent days and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2022\/02\/22\/le-pen-suspends-presidential-campaigning-over-lack-of-official-sponsorships\/\">paused her campaign<\/a> on Tuesday due to a lack of official endorsements needed to run for the French presidency. Under the French system \u2014 which is designed to exclude candidates outside of the mainstream \u2014 would-be presidential hopefuls need to gain the endorsements of hundreds of government officials to make their candidacy valid.<\/p>\n<p>Val\u00e9rie P\u00e9cresse, meanwhile, is facing her own difficulties after a report from the newspaper <em>Lib\u00e9ration<\/em>\u00a0claimed to have discovered serious irregularities in the primary vote that declared her the candidate for Les R\u00e9publicains (LR), including allegations that dead people and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marianne.net\/politique\/droite\/valerie-pecresse-et-laffaire-du-chien-douglas-lr-dement-les-accusations-dirregularites\">a dog named Douglas<\/a> were allowed to vote.<\/p>\n<p>Officially, only members of LR who paid the party a 30 euro fee were allowed to vote in the primary but the investigation into the vote has claimed that a woman who died in 2019 appeared on the voter roll.<\/p>\n<p>The controversy was quickly labelled \u201cDouglasgate\u201d on social media, after the alleged dog, said to reside in the\u00a0Provence-Alpes-C\u00f4te d\u2019Azur region. According to the magazine <em>Marianne<\/em>, the dog\u2019s owner, who did not want to be named, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marianne.net\/politique\/droite\/valerie-pecresse-et-laffaire-du-chien-douglas-lr-dement-les-accusations-dirregularites\">voted in place of the dog<\/a> and registered him as a test \u201cto see if it was feasible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Les R\u00e9publicains have denied the allegations, stating, \u201cSeveral members of Les R\u00e9publicains bear this name. The one quoted by Lib\u00e9ration could not take part in the vote because he did not meet the criteria requested.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The denial did not stop Eric Zemmour from lambasting P\u00e9cresse over the allegations, putting out a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.parti-reconquete.fr\/animal\">press release<\/a> claiming supporters could register their pets as members of his party Reconquest! but <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ZemmourEric\/status\/1496564519417622528?s=20&#038;t=y-PVUxGPi5eMht3dQEvwDg\">assured<\/a>\u00a0supporters that the animals would not be allowed to vote.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"fr\" dir=\"ltr\">Reconqu\u00eate! est le premier parti qui autorise l\u2019inscription de vos animaux de compagnie !<\/p>\n<p>NB : vous pouvez les inscrire mais ils ne pourront pas voter.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/douglasgate?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#douglasgate<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/LesAnimauxAvecZemmour?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#LesAnimauxAvecZemmour<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hluOVJuMoa\">https:\/\/t.co\/hluOVJuMoa<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Eric Zemmour (@ZemmourEric) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ZemmourEric\/status\/1496564519417622528?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 23, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h5><span data-darkreader-inline-color=\"\"><em><strong><span class=\"a-size-large\">Follow Chris Tomlinson on Twitter at\u00a0<span data-darkreader-inline-color=\"\"><a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TomlinsonCJ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">@TomlinsonCJ<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>or email at\u00a0ctomlinson(at)breitbart.com.<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Populist presidential candidate Marine Le Pen has surged in recent polling, while centre-right Les R\u00e9publicains candidate Val\u00e9rie P\u00e9cresse has slumped amid serious allegations of voting irregularities within her party. Polls<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1336871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1336871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1336871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1336871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1336871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1336871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1336871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}