31-08-2016 20:19 via news.yahoo.com

Macron election candidacy has more support than Hollande's: polls

A third of French voters want Emmanuel Macron, who resigned from government on Tuesday, to run in next year's presidential election, more than twice as many as those who would like President Francois Hollande to seek re-election, a poll showed. Neither has yet said they would be candidate but both the deeply unpopular Socialist president and his former protege are widely expected to throw their hats in the ring. Macron, a 38-year old former investment banker, quit his economy minister post on Tu
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