Fransk industri tar avstånd från Le Pen

The first round of the 2017 French presidential election will be held on 23 April 2017. Should no candidate win a majority, a run-off election between the top two candidates will be held on 7 May 2017. Incumbent president François Hollande of the Socialist Party is eligible to run for a second term, but declared that he would not seek re-election on 1 December 2016, becoming the first president of the Fifth Republic not to seek re-election. According to opinion polls, François Fillon of the Republicans and Marine Le Pen of the National Front led in first-round polling between November 2016 and mid-January 2017. Polls tightened considerably by late January and early February 2017, with Emmanuel Macron of En Marche! slowly rising in the polls and Hamon gaining ground in post-primary polls. After the satirical weekly Le Canard enchaîné published revelations about Fillon's use of €1 million in public funds to employ family members as parliamentary assistants for little work in late January, Macron surpassed Fillon to consistently poll second in first-round polling. Polls for the second round of voting suggest either Fillon or Macron would beat Le Pen and that Macron would defeat Fillon.

Jean-Marie Le Pen, född 20 juni 1928 i La Trinité-sur-Mer, Morbihan, är en fransk politiker som fram till 16 januari 2011 var partiledare för Front National som han grundade 1972. 2015 uteslöts han ur partiet efter att ha beskrivit gaskamrarna under andra världskriget för "en liten detalj". Le Pen har ställt upp i presidentvalet fem gånger, med sin största valframgång 2002, då han gick vidare till andra valomgången efter att ha fått fler röster än vänsterns kandidat Lionel Jospin. I presidentvalet 2007 hamnade han på fjärde plats i första valomgången, med 10,8 % av rösterna.