French far-left leader Jean-Luc Melanchon is set to beat Marine Le Pen, head of the far-right National Front party, by a wide margin in a parliamentary election in constituency in northern France next month, according to an opinion poll published in Sunday's edition of Le Journal du Dimanche newspaper.
The survey was carried out by the Ifop/Fiducial polling agency among a sample group of 602 inhabitants of the Henin-Beaumont district in northern France where both party leaders will meet head-on in the legislative elections to be held June 10, with run-offs to take place on June 17.
The poll found that, while Le Pen would take 34% of the vote in the first round of voting in the constituency and Melanchon 29%. However, Melanchon would lead Le Pen by 55% to 45% in a run-off round, according to the sample group.
Le Pen came out ahead in the Henin-Beaumont district in the first round of the presidential elections April 22, garnering 31.4% of the vote. In the second round, the district voted 60.44% for Socialist candidate Francois Hollande, who won the run-off vote May 6.
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