Shock survey for Marine Le Pen, as the 18 to 24 year old supports her to Emmanuel Macron

Marine Le Pen was strengthened by a shock survey, which showed that the majority of young people would support them against Emmanuel Macron, since France votes today in the first round of his presidential elections.

A month ago, Mr. Macron seemed to be almost safe to become the first French head of state who has won a re -election since Jacques Chirac, and after his response to war in Ukraine, his popularity rose sharply.

But the surveys have been very narrow in the past two weeks. The recent prediction that Mr. Macron will win around 27 percent of the vote in the first round of the election on Sunday, with the right woman Le Pen coming to 22 percent, which paves the way for a head-to-head race in two weeks.

A YouGov survey carried out last week showed that 56 percent of 18 to 24 year olds would vote for the nationalist candidate in a runoff election.

Other surveys assume that Ms. Le Pen will receive 47 percent of votes compared to Mr. Macron's 53 in the total population, a much less distance than in the election five years ago when he made her comfortably.

The latest numbers are close enough to have Mr. Macron warn of a possible political earthquake in Brexit style if the voters do not support him in a lot of support.

The wave of youth support for Ms. Le Pen has surprised many, after a campaign that focused on the crisis of living costs as well as on their hard attitude towards immigration, Islam and French identity.

"She is the only one who defends us that France will make more secure and more beautiful-a France that offers a future to his youth," said midwifery student Kelly Bedesh in one of many "Vote Marine" videos that were posted on Instagram for twenty years. some things.

The leader of the National Rallye was besieged during a last stop in the southwestern port city of Narbonne by young people who made selfies.

The youth choice is divided in the first round, with the right-wing extremist polemic Éric Zemmour and the Hartlinke Brandstifer Jean-Luc Mélenchon being the favorite candidates of under 24 year olds. Candidates of traditional parties, including Anne Hidalgo from the socialists and Valérie Pécresse from Les Républicains, are back.

David Quentin, a 25-year-old agricultural engineer who distributes Le Pen flight leaves, said her nationalist message put on alienated young voters.

"Our generation knows all sorts of problems. We have always seen war on TV. We have always known the economic crisis and terrorism, we always know environmental problems. It has always felt like the end of the world. We have lost our reference point as a country," he told the Telegraph.

The support from the youth is not necessarily a factor that speaks for Ms. Le Pen.

The high proportion of voters who want to stay away for one of the candidates of the election due to lack of enthusiasm made this election unpredictable.

According to surveys, record -breaking 31 percent of the voice could contain - and the boys will most likely stay away from these.

In the youthful Parisian district of Ménilmontant, the young voters shared on the café terraces between those who supported Mr. Mélenchon - France's answer to Jeremy Corbyn - and those who were completely excluded.

"To go to go to go to a system that I know that I know that my decisions cannot satisfy it, so I am not very interested in it," said the 25-year-old intern Étienne Sellier, who was not tried, between the right-wing extremist and the terrible candidate right away ".

Surveys indicate that the older and wealthier supporters of Mr. Macron will actually be the safest on Sunday.

"Can Le Pen win? Yes. Is it likely? I still think Macron will make it, but it is dangerously close," said Philippe Marlière, professor of French and European politics at the University of College London.

The French should have clear information on the results shortly after the end of the vote at 8 p.m. The final results are expected in early Monday.

As a former investment banker who stormed into power and promised a centrist, economic -friendly change, Mr. Macron insists that France has become a more dynamic country since 2017.

The convinced pro-European defends his balance sheet to lead France through pandemic and argues that he was the safest couple of hands in war.

Mr. Marlière suggested that Mr. Macron had made a dangerous mistake by claiming that he was too busy with his work to discuss competing candidates.

His relative invisibility in the election campaign benefited Ms. Le Pen, whose reviews are largely unaffected by her earlier admiration for Vladimir Putin and a great Russian loan that your party is still repaying.