France’s National Rally leads ahead in polls, Macron’s centrist bloc faces imminent defeat

Left wing’s New Popular Front alliance secured 27% support while President Macron’s movement could garner a 20% support which hangs his bloc’s chances in the upcoming polls scheduled to be held in two phases, on June 30 and July 7.

President Emmanuel Macron’s approval ratings tumbled by four percentage points to 28% in another poll conducted by Ipsos which also got published on Sunday. Macron dissolved the National Assembly and called for the snap elections after his bloc’s defeat in the recently concluded European Parliamentary elections.

Although the projection of seats differ as per multiple opinion polls, polling agency Elabe’s data suggests that far right party National Rally and affiliated candidates could secure 250 to 280 seats in the next parliament, which is still short of an absolute majority which stands at 289.

Though as per a Bloomberg report, another polling agency has predicted that National Rally could secure an outright majority while all projecting a sizeable lead for the far right party.

According to the Ipsos poll published on Sunday in the Financial Times newspaper, voters are bestowing faith in the National Rally to handle the economy far better than other groups like Macron’s centrist bloc or left’s New Popular Front despite an under-experience of government affairs and an absence of proper funding plan of the far right party.