French minister for European Affairs, Benjamin Haddad, told Euronews he's "quite confident" the French electorate will reject extremism and won't elect a far-right candidate to replace President Emmanuel Macron in next year's election.
His comments come days after an Elabe poll for BFMTV/La Tribune Dimanche showed Le Pen dwarfing all other candidates, predicting her to win between 34% and 35.5% of first-round votes.
Le Pen was cleared to stand in July despite an appeals court upholding an embezzlement conviction against her.
"We still have a long way to go before the election, but I'm quite confident that the French, like they've done so many, many times, will refuse extremism," Haddad said on Euronews' interview programme 12 Minutes With.
"The French people have repeatedly said no to extremism, to euroscepticism, and populism," he said.
