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Macron, Le Pen Running Neck-And-Neck in 1st Round of French Elections

© REUTERS / Patrick KovarikFrench presidential election candidates (LtoR) Francois Fillon, Emmanuel Macron, Jean-Luc Melenchon, Marine Le Pen and Benoit Hamon, pose before a debate organised by French private TV channel TF1 in Aubervilliers, outside Paris, France.
French presidential election candidates (LtoR) Francois Fillon, Emmanuel Macron, Jean-Luc Melenchon, Marine Le Pen and Benoit Hamon, pose before a debate organised by French private TV channel TF1 in Aubervilliers, outside Paris, France. - Sputnik International
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French independent presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron and far-right National Front (FN) party leader Marine Le Pen are running neck-and-neck with 22 percent of the projected votes each in the first round of the upcoming elections, a new poll revealed Friday.

Candidates for the 2017 presidential election (LtoR) Francois Fillon, former French Prime Minister, member of the Republicans and candidate of the French centre-right, Emmanuel Macron, head of the political movement En Marche !, or Onwards !, Jean-Luc Melenchon of the French far left Parti de Gauche, Marine Le Pen, French National Front (FN) political party leader and Benoit Hamon of the French Socialist party (PS) pose before a debate organised by French private TV channel TF1 in Aubervilliers, outside Paris, France, March 20, 2017. - Sputnik International
Macron, Le Pen Running Neck-And-Neck in 1st Round of French Elections
MOSCOW (Sputnik) — According to the Ipsos poll conducted for Le Monde newspaper, both far-left presidential hopeful Jean-Luc Melenchon and The Republicans' party nominee Francois Fillon have improved their standings and now stand at 20 and 19 percent respectively. Melenchon's projected share of the votes increased by 1.5 percent and Fillon's by 1 percent.

In the second round of the election, Macron is projected to beat Le Pen with 63 to 37 percent.

The poll was conducted between April 12 and April 13 among 1,509 registered voters.

The first round of the French presidential election is slated for April 23, while the run-off is expected to take place on May 7.

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