French President Emmanuel Macron will focus his campaign for extra votes Monday on the industrial heartland in the north of the country. He will do so in a working class stronghold of his far-right rival Marine Le Pen, whom he faces in the second round of the April 24 presidential election.
“Make no mistake, nothing is decided yet,” Macron told supporters after partial results opened the door to round two for him.
French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire stressed Monday that Emmanuel Macron will spend the next two weeks convincing voters to elect him in the second round of the presidential election.
The President opposed the formation of a coalition government between parties of different tendencies to help Macron stay in power. “I think we have no interest in having a puzzle-style majority made up of small pieces that we have to constantly readjust,” said the French minister.
The candidate Emmanuel Macron defeated his main opponent Marine Le Pen in the first round of the French presidential elections this Sunday more clearly than expected. The former received 28.6% of the vote and the far-right leader 24.4% of the vote.
Despite recent polls showing tight elbows, the gap between France’s current president and the leader of the National Regroupment was quite wide.
Ione Belarra, Secretary General of Podemos and Minister for Social Rights, has congratulated leftist leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon on his electoral result of 20.37% of the votes in this first round of French elections.
“Their support forms a large resistance bloc in defense of social rights and democracy, which will be the only real alternative to neoliberalism and the extreme right. From Podemos, by your side,” Belarra wrote on social media.
Follow the vote count in France. Current French leader Emmanuel Macron leads far-right leader Marine Le Pen with 27.60% by just over four percentage points into the first round of the presidential election, in which he received 23.41%, with 97% of the vote counted.
Interior Ministry data, still preliminary and subject to change, shows Macron rising from the first round of the 2017 election, when he scored 24.01%. Le Pen is also moving up from 21.30% five years ago.
Former Socialist Minister José Luis Ábalos, currently a PSOE MP and President of the Congress’ Interior Committee, has also pointed to the rise of the extreme right following the French elections.
“In France, the democratic parties are aware of this. Socialists, environmentalists and conservatives are calling on their voters to vote for Macron in the second ballot. It’s about defending freedoms. In Spain, Mañueco will complete his pact with VOX tomorrow,” said.
“Emmanuel Macron should never have been elected President of France in 2017,” says the journalist from La Vanguardia. He says this with reference to the fact that the French political system of the Fifth Republic, created by General De Gaulle in 1958, did not allow this a priori.
“Macron has set new standards and has arrived in the Elysée,” explains Uría in his article, pointing out that France’s electoral system is not designed for “personal adventures and hinge parties”, but strengthens the big parties and guarantees them solid governing majorities. . .
This Sunday’s presidential election in France has put a clearly unequal country in the polls. It is a country of 67 million people that concentrates many contradictions in all areas. Despite this, thanks to its twelve overseas entities, it is the second largest exclusive economic zone in the world after the United States.
The inequality in France, its distribution and its extent are better understood with these maps.
On the other hand, Gabriel Rufián, spokesman for the ERC in Congress, also pointed out that Marine Le Pen’s extreme right has entered the second round of the presidential elections in France.
The Republican commented, “4/10/2022. France. After the election results, the right announces a medical cordon for the extreme right. 04/11/2022. Spain. The first autonomous government of the PP and VOX is set up in Castilla y León after weeks of negotiations. And then why are we talking about Franco?
The second vice-president of the government and labor minister, Yolanda Díaz, said on social media yesterday that “it is terrible news that the extreme right can win the presidential elections in France,” referring to the fact that Marine Le Pen has returned to the second round.
“I trust that the French people will defend democracy with their vote on April 24th. We must raise a horizon of hope and rebuild society to isolate hate,” Díaz wrote on Twitter.
The advance of the extreme right in the presidential elections in France has focused the first political reactions in Spain. In some cases they have compared the opposition in France to their access to power given the pact between the PP and Vox to govern in Castilla y León.
And it is that far-right Marine Le Pen is set to repeat her 2017 duel against Emmanuel Macron in the second round of France’s presidential election, after the first round this Sunday gave the outgoing president a slightly larger than expected lead by the polls.
France’s first round of voting this Sunday has left outgoing President Emmanuel Macron by a slightly larger margin than the polls expected over far-right candidate Marine Le Pen, his main rival.
The announcement of the results coincided with calls from most of the losing candidates to set up a new “cordon sanitaire” and prevent the far-right Le Pen from reaching the head of state in the second round on April 24.
The far-right Marine Le Pen has urged all those who did not support her in the first round to vote in the second round of the French elections, particularly those who opted for the options excluded from the next phase of the election. .
“On the 24th, two visions of society are at stake, that of division and disorder or that of the French uniting in social justice and protection. Everyone who didn’t vote for Macron is invited to join this association,” Le Pen said.
French President Emmanuel Macron, a renewed candidate in this Sunday’s presidential elections, shook hands with all voters. He said he was ready to “invent something new to unite different beliefs and sensitivities” before the second round.
“Your trust honors me and obliges me (…) Let’s not make a mistake. Nothing is decided. And the debate we are going to have over the next fifteen days is crucial for our country and for Europe,” Macron said. I will play the presidency with far-right Marine Le Pen.
The only major candidate who spoke out clearly in favor of Marine Le Pen was far-right Éric Zemmour. According to initial estimates by the Ifop Institute, she received 7.2% of the votes in this first ballot.
“Before her is a man who allowed two million immigrants in, who didn’t say a word about security and immigration during the election campaign.
Sovereigntist Nicolas Dupont-Aignan (2.1%) also announced his support for Le Pen.
General call by the defeated candidates to stop Marine Le Pen’s candidacy and in favor of the current head of state, Emmanuel Macron. “You mustn’t give Le Pen a single vote,” said Linke leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon, who was in third place with 21.2 percent according to initial vote estimates.
Conservative Valérie Pécresse expressed a similar opinion as ecologist Yannick Jadot with 4.8%. Socialist Anne Hidalgo admitted defeat by just 1.7% and also asked for support for Macron. The environmentalist Jadot and the communist Fabien Roussel (2.4%) shared this need for unification.
Candidates Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen are repeating their 2017 duel in the second round of France’s presidential election. In the first round this Sunday, the outgoing president has a slightly larger lead than polls on his main rival had predicted.
With 96% of the votes counted, but still uncounting some of the country’s largest cities, Macron had 27.41% of the vote to Le Pen’s 24.03%, according to Interior Ministry data.
This Sunday’s presidential election in France has put a clearly unequal country in the polls. It is a country of 67 million people that concentrates many contradictions in all areas. Despite this, thanks to its twelve overseas entities, it is the second largest exclusive economic zone in the world after the United States.
The inequality in France, its distribution and its extent are better understood with these maps.
Saint Denis, with its La Plaine district, has a personality all of its own. This area is called La petit Espagne because it has received various waves of Spanish immigrants since the last third of the 19th century. Today, mainly Africans come to the area.
Located on the northern outskirts of Paris, with around 112,000 inhabitants, it is a city with serious social problems and a per capita income that is well below the national average. From 1944 to 2020 it had a communist mayor who was a fief for 76 consecutive years, and today the current mayor is a socialist.
The candidate Emmanuel Macron defeated his main opponent Marine Le Pen in the first round of the French presidential elections this Sunday more clearly than expected. The former received 28.6% of the vote and the far-right leader 24.4% of the vote.
Despite recent polls showing tight elbows, the gap between France’s current president and the leader of the National Regroupment was quite wide.
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