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Havana, April 10.- The first round of the presidential elections in France began this Sunday in the 96 metropolitan departments with around 49 million eligible voters and 12 candidates in the running.
At 8:00 a.m. local time, the voting tables will open, and from 8:00 p.m. the first results of the elections in the overseas territories, which started the day before, will be known.
As on Saturday, the electoral silence applies this Sunday, which means the ban on the dissemination of propaganda and the publication of polls, programs and interviews of the candidates for the Elysée Palace, although the media can offer the public the moment when politicians practice suffrage.
Polls conducted up to Friday unanimously reflect President Emmanuel Macron and far-right leader Marine Le Pen’s favoritism for the April 24 election, a prediction that the rematch, if confirmed today, will take place in the second back five would years before.
La Francia Insumisa boss Jean-Luc Mélenchon ended the campaign in third place, although he also has options to advance when the elections return in two weeks.
Meanwhile, far-right Éric Zemmour and conservative Valérie Pécresse seem out of the question after finishing second to their rivals in opinion polls.
The list of candidates is completed by the ecologist Yannick Jadot, the national secretary of the Communist Party, Fabien Roussel, the socialist mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, MPs Jean Lassalle and Nicolas Dupont-Aignan, the representative of the New Anti-Capitalist Party, Philippe Poutou, and the spokeswoman for the workers’ struggle, Nathalie Arthaud.
According to projections for this presidential election, abstention could account for about 30 percent of the electoral roll, threatening the record absenteeism set in the 2002 election (28.4). (RHC)