14 percent of French voters foresee a manipulation of the results of the presidential elections next Sunday, a figure that shoots up to 30 percent if only supporters of the far-right Marine Le Pen are taken into account.
In general terms, the far-right voters are the most suspicious of the system, since 29 percent of the followers of Éric Zemmour -the only candidate in the first round who has now requested the vote for Le Pen- are also suspicious of a fraud.
Among the followers of the leftist Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the doubt extends to 18 percent, while the figure falls to 7 percent among the voters of the current French president, Emmanuel Macron, according to a survey by the Ipsos firm prepared from more than 2,000 interviews.
In general terms, 48 percent of the French see it as possible that the elections will be manipulated, although the survey does not expressly ask how this fraud would be possible. Seven out of ten voters of Le Pen think this way, although the majority doubt is also in the case of the followers of Zemmour and Mélenchon.
Le Pen and Macron will face each other this Sunday in the second round of the presidential elections. For this face-to-face, reissue of the one that both politicians already lived in 2017, the current tenant of the Elysee is the favorite, although the polls give him a distance of about ten percentage points over the leader of the National Association.