At the National Rally, the question divides opinion. Marine Le Pen’s choice, for a time left in suspense because of her conviction in the RN parliamentary assistants case, appears to split her voters: 40% would be “for” a primary, 38% “against.”.
Emmanuel Macron’s 2022 voters, at the moment of his succession, come out in favor of a deciding process. Sixty percent call for a tie-breaking vote.
With fewer than 160 days until the presidential election, the French want to vote. That is the lesson of a new poll devoted to primaries, those ballots organized in principle before the election to designate the best candidate of a political camp.
This desire to have a say does not lead to agreement on how to choose the candidates. None of the six primary scenarios proposed by the polling institute wins a majority of favorable opinions.
Support for a primary varies sharply according to one’s place on the political spectrum. It is rather weak on the right and rather pronounced on the left.
Asked about their ideal candidate, 58% gave no answer. The wish to vote thus coexists with the absence of a unifying name and of a majority-backed primary scenario.