PARIS, March 13 (Xinhua) -- A Harris Interactive survey released on Monday showed French voters thought that presidential frontrunner Emmanuel Macron was more credible than his rivals to lower unemployment rate, currently at 9.7 percent.
According to the poll, 38 percent of 1,014 respondents had good opinion on Macron's presidential credentials to fight joblessness against conservative candidate Francois Fillon's 30 percent.
Only 27 percent of French voters trust far-right contender Marine Le Pen to devote on her pledge to trim the number of people without work, it added.
Via a new model of growth which was unveiled earlier this month, Macron pledged to lower joblessness rate to 7 percent by 2022.
With the aim, he proposed a public investment scheme worth 50 billion euros (53.32 billion U.S. dollars) aimed to improve training, financing energy transition and modernizing the country's administrative services.
Neither in the left, neither in the right, the pro-business youngest contender is seen leading the race to the Elysee Palace against anti-immigrant rival Le Pen during May's run-off.
