France: Recount after doubts cast over Le Pen poll

The company behind an opinion poll that placed the far-right leader Marine Le Pen as the favorite candidate in the first round of the presidential election is to re-do the poll.

Louis Harris Interactive, which carried out the poll on behalf of the newspaper Le Parisien, is to run the poll again, testing the scenario with two different Socialist Party candidates: Dominique Straus-Kahn and François Hollande.

The head of the department that carried out the poll, Jean-Daniel Lévy, said that the review would be carried out at the beginning of this week and had not been ordered by the Commission des sondages. Mr Lévy did not say if the results would be published.

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