French Green Party leader Eva Joly on Thursday said she had secured enough support to be a candidate in the country's presidential election this year.

Joly, 69, said she had garnered 639 signatures from mayors and elected officials required to stand at the two-round presidential election.

"I promised that I would be present at the rendezvous of the presidential election. This is the case today. I keep my commitments against all odds, as I have held throughout my life," Joly was quoted as saying by local medias.

Joly is so far the second candidate to win enough support from elected officials to stand for the 2012 presidential runoff before the deadline of March 16.

An Ifop daily survey, however, projected the former judge to win just 2.5 percent of support in the first round of vote in April.

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