Forecasts in the French press suggest that President Emmanuel Macron will be reelected by a secondround victory this Sunday (24) against farright Marine Le Pen, who conceded defeat minutes after polls closed. See the numbers below:
- Emmanuel Macron: 58%
- Marine LePen: 42%
- Macron: 57.6%
- Le Pen: 42.4%
- Macron: 58.2%
- Le Pen: 41.8%
2 of 4 Crowd gathered on the Champ de Mars in Paris reacts after projections point to Macron’s victory in France Photo: Ludovic MARIN / AFP
Crowd gathered on the Champ de Mars in Paris reacts after projections point to Macron’s victory in France (Photo: Ludovic MARIN / AFP)
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Macron will be the first president since conservative Jacques Chirac (19952007) to be reelected in France.
“Thank you for coming back,” he told poll workers after Sunday’s vote in the northern French coastal town of Le Touquet.
Marine Le Pen had previously voted in her stronghold of HéninBeaumont, also in the north of the country.
Less than 15 minutes after the projections were released, candidate Le Pen spoke. She admitted defeat and declared that the result was still a victory for her political movement.
The challenger also said that the will to defend French has been strengthened and that her supporters have already been declared dead thousands of times, but it was always wrong and that the French political scene is recovering.
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3 of 4 A man looks at posters of French presidential candidates Emanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen on April 11, 2022 Photo: Ludovic Marin/AFP
A man looks at posters of French presidential candidates Emanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen on April 11, 2022 Photo: Ludovic Marin/AFP
The latest polls released on Friday already suggested that the 44yearold República em Marcha (LREM) candidate would beat his 53yearold rival from Reunion Nacional (RN) by a narrower margin than when he was in 2017 was won with 66.1% of the votes.
Five years later, France is not the same country where the centrist first won: social protests marked the first half of Macron’s tenure, a global pandemic disabled millions and the Russian invasion of Ukraine rocked the entire European continent. .
The war at the gates of the European Union (EU) shaped the election campaign, although the main concern for the French is their purchasing power in the face of rising energy and food prices.
In addition to choosing between two models of society, voters had the choice of which place in the world they want to give this economic and nuclear power by 2027.
In his campaign, Le Pen proposed adding a “national priority” to the constitution to exclude foreigners from welfare payments and defended the abandonment of NATO’s integrated command and the reduction of European Union powers.
4 of 4 A woman in a costume representing justice holds a placard that reads: “Environmental and social emergency: yellow, green, red and black, all in Paris on the 21st JeanChristophe Verhaegen/AFP
A woman in a costume representing justice holds a sign that reads: “Environmental and social emergency: yellow, green, red and black, all in Paris at 21 Verhaegen/ AFP
On the other hand, Macron defended a stronger Europe, whether on economic, social or defense issues, and hopes to give France a new reformist and liberal impetus with his proposal to move the retirement age from 62 to 65, which will be as early as 2020 to give triggered mass protests.
One of the keys to this will be the general elections, which take place on June 12th and 19th. According to a poll published on Friday, 66 percent want Macron to lose his parliamentary majority.
The last “living together” dates from 1997 to 2002, when Chirac appointed the socialist Lionel Jospin as prime minister.
The Social Democratic prime ministers of Germany, Spain and Portugal, as well as former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, expressed their support for Macron during the election campaign.