French President François Hollande's bid to dismantle Calais camp triggers protests across the country, lowering his popularity and putting his presidential campaign in jeopardy. Meanwhile, Marine Le Pen, leader of France's far-right National Front (FN) party, clears her way for the French presidency, according to a new poll published on Thursday.The study conducted by research center Elabe for France's Radio Classique and the newspaper Les Echos found that Le Pen could between 25 and 28 percent of the vote in order to qualify for the second round of the country's 2017 presidential election.Temporary home to thousands of migrants trying to reach Britain, the French city of Calais is a major battlefield for presidential candidates who are seizing on fears of immigration in campaigning for spring elections. The first round of France's presidential election will be held on April 23, 2017, and the second on May 7, 2017.Presidential contender Le Pen, well positioned in polls, has made fighting immigration her longstanding issue. The president of the National Front is campaigning to leave the EU and its visa-free zone, which would allow France to reinstate controls at national borders.The migrant camp in Calais must be fully dismantled by the end of the year, French President Francois Hollande said Monday. President Hollande, who was visiting Calais for the first time since winning office in 2012, said the camp known as "the Jungle" is a "humanitarian emergency."Le Pen paid her last visit to Calais two years ago, when she claimed she would send the migrants "back home even to countries at war."Hollande's government promised to dismantle the Calais camp by the end of the year and resettle migrants in small centers across France to examine their situations on a case-by-case basis. However, many French have claimed that Hollande's migrant strategy would turn their home town into "lawless" migrant camps like Calais. The plan has prompted vehement protests from many local conservative and far-right politicians, saying they fear the consequences of the presence of migrants in their towns.In a letter to Hollande, a group of eight nonprofit organizations helping migrants called for a long-term policy of hospitality and integration in France. They criticized the dismantlement of the Calais camp as a "short-term view that does not solve anything for the dozens of people who will continue to arrive every day in Calais." "In Calais and elsewhere, France does not respect human rights," they wrote.An 18-hectare wasteland in the French port city was turned into a camp in April 2015. Hundreds of migrants were relocated by French authorities where there is no access to basic services. Most migrants coming from the eastern African countries of Eritrea, Ethiopia and Sudan and war-torn Syria intend to cross the English Channel and seek asylum in the U.K. As only a small number of refugees are eligible to enter European countries, the ones that can find shelter suffer from worsening humanitarian conditions in refugee camps.