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Reuters: France’s Macron, Le Pen edge further ahead of Fillon, Melenchon in poll

Published April 17, 2017 at 9:28 pm

(COMBO) This combination of pictures created on April 14, shows French presidential election candidates: (From L) for the right-wing Les Republicans (LR) party Francois Fillon taken on Nov. 25, 2016 ; for the far-right Front National (FN) party Marine Le Pen taken on Oct. 17, 2016 ; for the En Marche ! movement Emmanuel Macron taken on March 07, 2017 and for the far left coalition "La France insoumise" Jean-Luc Melenchon taken on Jan. 24, 2017. These four candidates are able to qualify for the second round of the French presidential election.

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French centrist Emmanuel Macron is set to top the voting in the first round of France’s presidential election ahead of far-right leader Marine Le Pen, and their leads over conservative Francois Fillon and leftist Jean-Luc Melenchon have widened, a poll showed on April 17.

The Elabe poll for magazine L’Express showed Macron winning 24 percent of the vote on April 16, up from 23.5 percent the last time the survey was conducted a week ago.