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Emmanuel Macron has a clear lead in the first round of the French presidential elections. The partial results, after counting in the sections corresponding to 96% of those eligible, the outgoing President had 27.41% (poll trend showed 25.5%) and Marine Le Pen 24.03% (online polls showed 23.5%). ), but many votes from the big cities are still missing. On April 24th, as in 2017, the two contenders will fight again to conquer the Elysée.
The other candidates
Third is former leftsocialist JeanLuc Mèlenchon, leader of La France Insoumise, with 21.57% (the polls showed 17.2%). Eric Zemmour collected 6.97% (polls showed 9.3%), neoGallicist Valérie Pécresse 4.75% (polls showed 8.3%) and ecologist Yannick Jadot 4.49% (polls showed 5%). Socialist Anne Hildalgo, Mayor of Paris, garnered 1.74% (polls showed 2%) and was outperformed by some “minor” candidates such as Résistons conservative Jean Lassalle with 3.25%, Fabien Roussel, a communist, with 2.33%. and Nicolas DupontAignan of Debout La France, another farright movement, with 2.12%.
Long live the disappointment in the headquarters of Mélenchon, who was actually aiming for the second round, among the Socialists, at historic lows and among the Republicans. “I’m sure that we will win soon,” said Zemmour, admitting “some mistakes”.
Macron is also in the lead in the polls for the election
The very first round two polls released after the voting closed come up with quite different results: IfopFiducial puts Macron at 51% and Le Pen at 49%, a very uncertain neckandneck race; In contrast, Ipsos SopraSteria and OpinionWay give the outgoing President 54% and the farright candidate 46%. The error rate is 3%.
The vote in Le Touquet and in Moscow
In Le TouquetParisPlage on the English Channel, where Macron resides, the outgoing President received 55.8% of the vote (up from 30% in 2017), followed by Zemmour (11.6%), Pécresse (11.3% ). and Le Pen (10.7%) and Mélenchon (3.9%). At the French Embassy in Moscow, on the other hand, Zemmour won with 26.8%, followed by Macron (23.2%), Le Pen (20.8%) and Mélenchon (13.4%).
Macron: “Let’s invent something new”
“We have no illusions, nothing is final,” Macron said in a speech at his headquarters. “The debate we are going to have over the next fifteen days will be crucial for our country and for Europe,” he added, recalling “a France that continues to trust in science, reason and competence, as we have in the have done in recent years”. He also appealed to the other candidates to form “a great movement of unity and action” and said he was “ready to invent something new to bring together the different beliefs and sensibilities”.