Sunday, March 6, 2011

Marine Le Pen ahead of Sarkozy in the election polls

The president of the far-right National Front, Marine Le Pen, is ahead of Nicolas Sarkozy in the French preference for the post of president, according to a survey showed Saturday. Marine, daughter of the founder and former president of the National Front Jean-Marie Le Pen, achieved 23% of likely voters, ahead of 21% to obtain both the current French president as the Socialist leader, Martine Aubry, according to a newspaper poll "Le Parisien." The president of FN achieves that intention to vote for a hypothetical first round if it were held "next Sunday," according to the survey conducted by Harris Interactive for the newspaper, which published this Sunday, but Saturday and advanced it in place Internet.

The daily recalls that Jean-Marie Le Pen was second in the first round of the elections held in 2002, behind former President Jacques Chirac and Socialist leader ahead of Lionel Jospin. 'Le Parisien' emphasizes that it is the first time that a poll on voting intentions for the presidential elections scheduled for 2012 assumes that the president of FN would happen to the second round of voting.

President Sarkozy has not yet confirmed whether he will run for reelection next year, although on Saturday the prime minister, François Fillon, said in an interview in Le Figaro that the head of state is the "single best" candidate the ruling Union for a Popular Movement (UMP). For this survey, conducted from February 28 to March 3, interviewed 1618 people aged 18 years, said Le Parisien.

As for the voting intentions, the survey adds that the president of the Democratic Movement, François Bayrou, received 8%, ahead of the environmentalist Eva Joly, who achieved a 7%, as the former prime minister and former head of gala diplomacy Dominique de Villepin. Following the publication of the survey, the first secretary socialist, Aubry said in the radio station "Europe 1" to "what is clear is that Nicolas Sarkozy plays a kind of double or nothing for weeks." This "game" according to the Socialist leader, began when the French president sparked debate about French national identity, a year ago.

Sarkozy resigned last November to the expression after the national debate of xenophobic dyed and 2010 after a summer dominated by the expulsion of Roma from Romania and Bulgaria. Aubry added that the reference to a possible massive influx of immigrants as a result of revolts in Arab countries is another element of this "game", as it facilitates the rise of far-right FN poll showing the 'Le Parisien'.

Former Socialist Prime Minister Laurent Fabius said at the station 'RTL', "It is true that there is a rise of the National Front and debate, completely absurd, that Sarkozy wants to launch on Islam is in this sense," referring to a discussion about this religion that is driven from the ruling UMP.

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