French election polls: who is leading the race to be the next president of France?
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Loading... - Reeta Korhonen
- 31 Mar 2022
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France will vote to elect a new president in April, and the final list of candidates consists of twelve competitors, chief among them the Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen.
The current president, Emmanuel Macron, declared earlier this month that he intends to run for a second term. His second-round opponent from 2017, the far-right populist Marine Le Pen, had already launched her campaign.
The centre-right Les Républicains chose Valérie Pécresse in a primary election.
Alongside those three on the ballot will be Anne Hidalgo, the Socialist candidate, and Yannick Jadot, representing the Green movement, among others.
Would-be candidates had until 4 March to present the 500 signatures of elected officials supporting their run, which the law requires.
A first round is to be held on 10 April, and in the likely event that no candidate receives a majority of the votes, a second round runoff will be held two weeks later, featuring the two leading candidates from the first round.
Polls suggest that the run-off will probably put Macron up against Le Pen, in a re-run of the second round in 2017.
