French centrist presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron is neck-and-neck with far-right Marine Le Pen in the first round of the French presidential elections, according to a survey published Sunday and cited by Politico.
Macron has gained on Le Pen and the two are now polling at 26 percent, according to the survey. Conservative candidate François Fillon, who has been beset by a scandal, is at 17 percent while the two other candidates, Socialist Benoît Hamon and Jean-Luc Mélenchon of the far left, are both at 12 percent.