Courtesy of Mish. French president Francois Hollande’s term does not end until 2017, but for the first time ever Marine Le Pen’s Front National party is on top in head-to-head polling. Her father, Jean-Marie Le Pen once shocked France by taking Front National to round two in the 2002 election, but was defeated by incumbent president Jacques Chirac who obtained 82% of the votes. The Financial Times reports Poll shows Le Pen beating Hollande in presidential run-off Marine Le Pen, leader of France’s far-right National Front, would beat struggling incumbent François Hollande in a run-off election for the French presidency, according to a new poll. The unprecedented finding came as a fresh blow to Mr Hollande at the end of a week in which he suffered a cascade of bad news, including the publication of a lacerating book by Valérie Trierweiler, his former partner.
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