MADRID, April 19 (EUROPA-PRESSE) –
14 percent of French voters expect the results of next Sunday’s presidential election to be rigged, a number that shoots up to 30 percent if supporters of the far-right Marine Le Pen are counted.
In general, far-right voters are the most suspicious of the system, with 29 percent of supporters of Éric Zemmour – the only first-round candidate who has now applied to vote for Le Pen – also suspect fraud.
Doubt among supporters of leftist Jean-Luc Mélenchon stands at 18 percent, while the figure falls to 7 percent among supporters of current French President Emmanuel Macron, according to an Ipsos survey of more than 2,000 job interviews.
In general, 48 percent of the French consider it possible that the elections are being rigged, although the survey does not specifically ask how this fraud could be possible. Seven out of ten Le Pen voters think so, although the majority also have doubts about supporters of Zemmour and Mélenchon.
Le Pen and Macron face off in the second round of the presidential election this Sunday. The current tenant of the Elysées is the favorite for this face-to-face re-edition of what both politicians lived in in 2017, although the polls give him a gap of around ten percentage points to the leader of the national association.