According to the poll conducted by OpinionWay for the newspaper Le Parisien, the mayor of the port city of Le Havre and leader of the Horizons party is the favorite of 42 percent of voters of various right-wing tendencies, followed by the current Minister of Economy Bruno Le Maire (27).
Then the Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin and the conservative Xavier Bertrand (Republican Party) appear on the list with 22 percent each, while Laurent Wauquiez, also from the Republicans, only received 17 percent support.
According to the study, Philippe would be the candidate with the best chance of reaching the Elysee Palace in 2027, with 33 percent support, ahead of the leading figure of the far right, Marine Le Pen (30), who won in the last two presidential elections in 2017 and in 2022 he lost in the runoff election against Emmanuel Macron.
The 52-year-old politician was Macron’s prime minister between 2017 and 2020, a position he left with popularity higher than that of the head of state.
In recent days, the question of the presidential elections, which are still a long way off, has become more important, since Darmanin has been promoted as the favorite figure of the “Macronists” as the successor to the leader of La República en Marcha, the current renaissance, although the Minister of the Interior Does not seem to do so to agree. moment with real opportunities to achieve this.
The first round of the 2022 elections confirmed the dominance of the right in its various demonstrations in France, with Macron receiving the most votes with 27.9 percent, ahead of Le Pen (23.2), the only representative of the left Jean-Luc Mélenchon (La Francia Insumisa, 22), the right-wing extremist Éric Zemmour (7.1) and the conservative Valérie Pécresse (4.8).
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