(Bloomberg) -- Independent French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron overtook Marine Le Pen in support for the initial round of voting for the first time, a poll showed.
Macron would obtain 27 percent of the vote if ballots were cast now, compared with 25.5 percent for Le Pen, according to an Odoxa poll published Friday. Odoxa polled 934 voters on March 1 and 2. The poll's margin of error is 2.6 percentage points.
The National Front's Le Pen, who wants to withdraw France from the euro, has held the lead in first-round voting intention in most polls for over a year, though surveys also showed her losing in the second round.
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