A recent poll, conducted by BVA between Wednesday night and Thursday morning of last week, credits the candidate for the Left Front (Front de gauche) 14% of the vote, ahead of the far right FN and a centrist candidate. Hollande of the Socialist Party (PS) remains at the top, for both the first and second round.
It was called the event of the day: according to the survey conducted by the BVA for RTL and regional dailies, and released Thursday, the Left Front candidate, Jean-Luc Melenchon, ranks third behind Francois Hollande and Nicolas Sarkozy, beating Marine Le Pen and Bayrou, previously ranked in the third and fourth places respectively. The Left Front rises to 14% of the vote, an unprecedented level, 13% for the candidate of the FN and 12% for the centrists.
From the outset, three elements attracted a lot of attention to this poll. The first is that the role played by the far-right’s Marine Le Pen to knock down vote on the two leading candidates, in order to ward off the specter of a repeat of the election of April 21, 2002, seems to have backfired. The performance of the Left Front in this poll is itself an upheaval in the political landscape, since no candidate had seen Melenchon as anything but an outsider with little chance to influence the election. This has generated a unique dynamic in the campaign.
Video of what many consider the turn around moment in the campaign:
EP.19 – En marche: On a pris la Bastille -… by PlaceauPeuple
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