{"id":327485,"date":"2026-05-30T05:30:05","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T05:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=327485"},"modified":"2026-06-01T07:19:43","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T07:19:43","slug":"le-pen-leads-every-major-rival-in-new-french-presidential-runoff-polling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=327485","title":{"rendered":"Le Pen leads every major rival in new French presidential runoff polling"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Thomas Brooke \u2013 Remix News May 29, 2026<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>Marine Le Pen would beat every major rival in a second-round French presidential election runoff, according to new polling that hypothesized her eligibility to stand in the election expected in April next year.<\/p>\n<p>A Toluna-Harris Interactive poll for M6 and RTL, conducted on May 27, found Le Pen ahead in all three tested runoff scenarios when she is the National Rally candidate.<\/p>\n<p>The strongest result came against far-left leader Jean-Luc M\u00e9lenchon, with Le Pen taking 67 percent to his 33 percent. She also defeated former Prime Minister Gabriel Attal by 54 percent to 46 percent, and former Prime Minister Edouard Philippe by 52 percent to 48 percent.<\/p>\n<p>The figures are significant because Philippe and Attal are among the most prominent names in the broader Macron-aligned camp, which has long presented itself as the main barrier to a National Rally victory. Le Pen has twice lost runoff elections to Macron, back in 2017 and 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Yet the poll suggests that even the strongest establishment contenders would currently fall short against Le Pen in a head-to-head vote.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">France, Toluna-Harris poll:<\/p>\n<p>Presidential run-off election<\/p>\n<p>Le Pen (RN-PfE): 52%<br \/>\nPhilippe (HOR-RE): 48%<\/p>\n<p>Le Pen (RN-PfE): 54%<br \/>\nAttal (RE-RE): 46%<\/p>\n<p>Le Pen (RN-PfE): 67%<br \/>\nM\u00e9lenchon (LFI-LEFT): 33%<\/p>\n<p>Fieldwork: 25-27 May 2026<br \/>\nSample size: 1,744<\/p>\n<p>\u27a4 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qOzl2nSVPC\">https:\/\/t.co\/qOzl2nSVPC<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ZwUFcw7Ma7\">pic.twitter.com\/ZwUFcw7Ma7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Europe Elects (@EuropeElects) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/EuropeElects\/status\/2060297123225018421?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 29, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Le Pen is currently barred from running after being handed an immediate five-year ban from public office, but she has appealed the ruling. A decision on that appeal is expected on July 7. Should she remain unable to run, National Rally president Jordan Bardella is widely expected to become the party\u2019s presidential candidate.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"ikLqoj03mP\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/rmx.news\/article\/bardella-leads-french-presidential-race-as-philippe-slumps-and-melenchon-closes-in\/\">Bardella leads French presidential race as Philippe slumps and M\u00e9lenchon closes in<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That would still leave National Rally in a commanding position. Earlier polling this week showed Bardella leading the first round with 32 percent, well ahead of Philippe on 17 percent and M\u00e9lenchon on 16 percent. The same May Odoxa political barometer also showed Bardella beating Philippe in a second-round runoff by 52 percent to 48 percent, reversing the result recorded two months earlier, when Philippe had led by the same margin.<\/p>\n<p>Taken together, the surveys point to a deepening problem for France\u2019s centrist and left-wing parties. Whether the candidate is Le Pen or Bardella, the National Rally is now polling not merely as a first-round protest vehicle, but as a party capable of winning the presidency outright.<\/p>\n<p>If Le Pen\u2019s appeal succeeds, she would enter the race as the most formidable candidate in the field. If it fails, Bardella would inherit a political landscape in which the National Rally brand is already ahead of its most likely rivals.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\uf1eb\uf1f7 <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MLP_officiel?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@MLP_officiel<\/a> promises the French people a referendum on immigration if the National Rally candidate wins next year&#8217;s presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>Current polling shows both possible RN candidates, Le Pen and <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/J_Bardella?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@J_Bardella<\/a>, beating all other major rivals in a second round run-off. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/X0t1RCRMec\">pic.twitter.com\/X0t1RCRMec<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Remix News &amp; Views (@RMXnews) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RMXnews\/status\/2060322509199671693?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 29, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>On Friday, Le Pen announced her intention, should the National Rally win the presidency, to offer the French public a referendum on mass immigration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe French people have been betrayed. In 2027, we will restore a democratic vitality to France by returning power to the people,\u201d she wrote on X.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rmx.news\/article\/le-pen-leads-every-major-rival-in-new-french-presidential-runoff-polling\/\">Source\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marine Le Pen would beat every major rival in a second-round French presidential election run-off, according to new polling. What makes her a REAL contender however, is that she also supports Israel.  So even if she wins, it may be a case of &#8220;meet the new boss &#8230; same as the old boss&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":308554,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[104,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-327485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-france","category-Israel_Anti-Semitism_Zionism_and_US-UK_allies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=327485"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":327492,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327485\/revisions\/327492"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/308554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=327485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=327485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=327485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}