SBC News William Hill – François Fillion 'French Favourite' but Le Pen is punters choice

William Hill – François Fillion ‘French Favourite’ but Le Pen is punters choice

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Updating its ‘France 2017’ election market, William Hill has placed Conservative candidate and former Prime Minister François Fillion as its current market frontrunner (price 4/7).

This weekend Fillion surprised French political commentators by grabbing victory in the Les Républicains (French Conservatives) first primary. Fillion now goes head-to-head with Alain Juppé (former market favourite, now priced 8/1) for the election leadership of Les Républicains in 2017 (voting day: next 23 April).

Following a year of political shocks in 2016, with all bookmakers failing to call the UK/EU Referendum (23 June) and the US 2016 Election victory of Donald Trump (8 November), industry attention now turns to France 2017.

Front National (French Far-Right) leader Marie Le Pen has been placed as 9/4 second favourite, however William Hill’s early market has disclosed that the anti-immigration and anti-EU candidate is gaining punters individual wagers, in-line with the betting patterns of the Brexit and Trump victories.

Graham Sharpe William Hill’s Political Spokesperson commented on the early France 2017 market

‘We have already taken more money on the outcome than for any other French Presidential 2017 election. Marine Le Pen has attracted over 50% of all individual bets placed on the outcome and over 50% of all the money so far staked”.

‘At present, the French election appears to be a straight two-horse race now with the early favourite going the same way as other recent political favourites like Clinton and Remain’

European political commentators will be keen to further hear Fillion political mandate as he battles Juppé for leadership of the French conservatives. Can the self-confessed Anglophile conservative hardliner counter Le Pen’s nativist rhetoric.

All bookmakers concur that there is almost no chance of François Hollande’s Parti Socialiste (Socialist Party) retaining its presidency. So unpopular is the current incumbent that he has been priced at 66/1 to be re-elected as President.

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