In France, as in the 2017 presidential election, incumbent President Emmanuel Macron and the sovereign rightist Marine Le Pen should again be expected to face off in the second round of voting.
According to the data published by the French Ministry of the Interior on Monday morning, with 97 percent of the votes cast in Sunday's first round processed, Macron won 27.6 percent of the votes, while Le Pen can claim 23.41 percent.
Thus, the two of them made it to the second round on April 24.
The radical leftist Jean-Luc Mélenchon finished third with 21.95 percent. According to data from the Ministry of the Interior, Éric Zemmour, the radical publicist-turned-politician, won 7.05 percent, the center-right Valérie Pécresse got 4.79 percent, the Green Party candidate Yannick Jadot got 4.58 percent, and Anne Hidalgo, the mayor of the Socialist Party of Paris, got 1.73 percent. .
According to the polling company Ipsos, the turnout was 74 percent.
Jadot, Hidalgo and Pécresse announced their support for Macron in the second round, and Zemmour for Le Pen. Mélenchon said before the vote that he would first consult with his voters before announcing who he would stand behind in the second round. At the same time, he called on his followers not to vote for Le Pen in the second round.
The polling company Ifop has already given an estimate of how the result will turn out in the second round: according to this, Macron will beat Le Pen by a minimal margin, 51-49.
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