Le Pen sees polls boost amid mass protests, riots

Home France To display this content from YouTube, you must enable advertisement tracking and audience measurement. One of your browser extensions seems to be blocking the video player from loading. To watch this content, you may need to disable it on this site. Cover image: La líder de la ultraderecha francesa, Marine Le Pen, diputada del partido Agrupación Nacional (RN), reacciona durante un discurso pronunciado por Jordan Bardella, presidente del partido, ante sus seguidores en una feria rural en Lievin, al norte de Francia, el 4 de julio de 2026. © Reuters/Tom Nicholson 01:33 Issued on: 21/10/2026 - 20:56 Marine Le Pen is set to officially launch her presidential campaign this weekend at the National Rally two-day party congress in Orléans. The latest Ifop poll, carried out in the wake of the mass protests and riots in France, suggests the far right leader would win the first round of the presidential election by a wide margin, and far-left candidate Jean-Luc Melenchon emerged as her most likely opponent in the runoff. FRANCE 24's Emerald Maxwell reports. Keywords for this article