let's begin in france the race is tightening between platform the two front runners for the april 24th run-off far-right leader and candidate marine le pen is staging a comeback in the polls as her presidential campaign gains momentum le pen has notched highest ever scores for herself in the opinion polls in an opinion poll of a likely runoff against emanuel macron le pen has captured 48.5 percent of voter intentions it is the highest score she has ever secured the study from april 1st to 4th puts macron's rating at 51.5 percent according to the harry's interactive poll this is the first time that the two finalists of the presidential election are tested so close in 2017 macron won the runoff vote against le pen with 66 percent another poll by opinion way and key partners also forecast and narrowing 53 to 47 percent margin of victory for macron in the past months macron's victory has been considered almost a foregone conclusion but research firm hari's interactive say that a victory by macron is now within the margin of error ahari's interactive port is in line with every other survey over the the last month all of them still show macron as the likely winner but since macron began the campaign with the delay there is a substantial reduction in his lead macron is distracted by the ukraine crisis he has focused on rather unpopular economic reforms including raising the retirement age on the other hand le pen focused on the declining purchasing power of middle and lower income voters another major issue in the country is pension reforms macron plans to increase the legal age at which one gets a full pension from 62 to 65. but le pen wants to keep the 62 year old threshold she also wants to bring it down to 60 years for those who started working before age 20 but macron argues that raising the retirement age is needed to make the system viable and increase low pensions less than one week ahead of the first election round le pen's ratings have continued to improve for both the first round and the april 24th runoff this means le pen's campaign is working well in her favor tight race for the lsa palace [Music] emmanuel macron leads the polls [Music] group will ukraine war give mccrone an edge french election 2022 comprehensive coverage on wheel reon is now available in your country download the app now and get all the news on the move [Music]
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