France's far-right National Front tops pre-election poll as EU swings right — RT News

12.10.13

France's far-right National Front tops pre-election poll as EU swings right — RT News: Nearly one-quarter of French voters would vote for France’s National Front in May 2014 European Parliament elections, according to a new poll of voting intentions. The far-right party garnered 24 percent, reinforcing a rightward swing across the EU.

“With 24%, Marine Le Pen’s Front National heads voting intentions in the European elections of 2014,” stated The Institut Fran�ais d'Opinion Publique (IFOP) on their website. This means that the party has the potential to win more support than the government and the primary opposition party in elections next May.

It’s the first time the National Front has topped a pre-election poll ahead of France’s two mainstream political parties, ex-president Nicolas Sarkozy’s center-right Union for a Popular Movement (UPM), picked by 22 percent of voters, and President Francois Hollande’s centrist Socialist Party, picked by 19 percent.