Marine Le Pen in shock poll boost as quarter of young voters ‘back Front National’

‘Almost a quarter of young French voters want far-right candidate Marine Le Pen to win the upcoming presidential election, a surprising poll has found.
Some 24 per cent of French voters aged 18 to 24 questioned said they would be voting for the hardline candidate in the first round of the election, which is to be held on April 23.
Centrist candidate Emmanuel Macron, who served as economy minister under outgoing president François Hollande, however, has also won over French youths, and is just as popular as his hard-right rival – with 24 per cent of voters also saying they wanted him to become president.’
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