{"id":3307,"date":"2026-05-27T20:25:37","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T17:25:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/bardella-projected-to-win-french-presidential-election\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T20:25:37","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T17:25:37","slug":"bardella-projected-to-win-french-presidential-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/bardella-projected-to-win-french-presidential-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Bardella Projected to Win French Presidential Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/t\/assets\/html\/tweet-5.html#1994417747842027875\" data-btlnk=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1994417747842027875\" class=\"bnn-if-tweet\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"260\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A recent Odoxa-Mascaret opinion poll conducted for the Public S\u00e9nat broadcaster surveyed over a thousand French voters on the race to succeed Emmanuel Macron when his term expires in 2027. The findings project <strong>Jordan Bardella<\/strong>, president of the National Rally party, as the clear frontrunner in both rounds of voting.<\/p>\n<p>The polling data shows Bardella commanding a substantial first-round lead with 32 per cent support, nearly double that of his closest competitor, former Prime Minister <strong>\u00c9douard Philippe<\/strong>, who trails at 17 per cent. Philippe, who serves as Mayor of Le Havre and heads the neo-liberal Horizons party, would also lose to Bardella in a projected second-round contest by a margin of 52 to 48 per cent.<\/p>\n<p>Philippe has been positioned as the centrist candidate most capable of preserving Macron&#8217;s legacy of preventing both the populist right and socialist left from gaining power. However, his first-round support has dropped four points since March, placing his advancement to the second round in serious doubt.<\/p>\n<h2>Far-Left Leader Threatens Centrist Position<\/h2>\n<p>Far-left La France Insoumise leader <strong>Jean-Luc M\u00e9lenchon<\/strong> is closing the gap with 16 per cent support, just one point behind Philippe. The France in Rebellion chief&#8217;s rising numbers put significant pressure on the centrist camp to consolidate around Philippe or risk shifting support to alternative establishment figures.<\/p>\n<p>Potential replacement candidates include former Prime Minister <strong>Gabriel Attal<\/strong> and current Justice Minister <strong>G\u00e9rald Darmanin<\/strong>, both of whom announced support for immigration restrictions this week in apparent attempts to appeal to centre-right voters.<\/p>\n<p>Philippe&#8217;s declining poll numbers coincide with an announcement earlier this month from France&#8217;s National Financial Authority that it has opened an investigation into the Horizons leader. The probe concerns alleged embezzlement of public funds, favouritism, and illegal conflict of interest related to a \u20ac2 million contract awarded by his Le Havre mayoral government to a charity operated by a political ally.<\/p>\n<h2>Bardella Dominates Potential Matchup with Far Left<\/h2>\n<p>While M\u00e9lenchon&#8217;s supporters celebrated his gains on Philippe, Rassemblement National headquarters likely views the far-left leader&#8217;s rise even more favourably. A previous Odoxa poll testing a direct Bardella-M\u00e9lenchon matchup showed the 30-year-old National Rally leader crushing the 74-year-old radical by an overwhelming 74 per cent to 26 per cent margin.<\/p>\n<p>Uncertainty remains over whether Bardella will actually appear on the 2027 ballot, however. The rising political star serves as his party&#8217;s backup option behind his mentor, <strong>Marine Le Pen<\/strong>, who has run unsuccessfully for president three times.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/t\/assets\/html\/tweet-5.html#2036040147263787284\" data-btlnk=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/2036040147263787284\" class=\"bnn-if-tweet\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"260\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Le Pen faces a potential ban from the 2027 race stemming from allegations that she and her party misused European Union funds for domestic political activities in France. A court last year ruled that the charges warranted a five-year prohibition from standing in any European election. Le Pen is currently appealing that decision, with a ruling expected this summer.<\/p>\n<p>The strong performance of the party&#8217;s contingency candidate signals the shifting political landscape in France and potentially across Western Europe. A populist victory in Paris next year could foreshadow similar movements in Britain and Germany, as <em>Breitbart News<\/em> reports.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:right\"><em>With information from <a href=\"https:\/\/breitbart.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Breitbart News<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jordan Bardella of France&#8217;s National Rally leads 2027 presidential polls with 32% first-round support, ahead of centrist \u00c9douard Philippe at 17% and far-left Jean-Luc M\u00e9lenchon at 16%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":3306,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[2271,235,55],"nfg_topic":[134],"class_list":["post-3307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-edouard-philippe","tag-emmanuel-macron","tag-france","nfg_topic-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3307\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3307"},{"taxonomy":"nfg_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/nfg_topic?post=3307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}