The essential
- Emmanuel Macron obtained 27.84% of the vote last night, Marine Le Pen 23.15%, according to final figures from the Ministry of the Interior. For the president of the RN, a new challenge is announced.
- To find results in your city, meet here. And how did your department vote? To discover to be.
- Abstention exceeds a quarter (26.31%) of registered voters. It belongs ten lessons to be learned of this first round.
- As of yesterday evening, Anne Hidalgo and Valérie Pécresse, Yannick Jadot and Fabien Roussel, have clearly called to vote for Emmanuel Macron. Jean-Luc Mélenchon, who came 3rd, did not give any voting instructions but repeated three times that “we must not give a single vote to Madame Le Pen”.
- The second round, according to the first polls, should be tighter than five years ago. This Monday, Emmanuel Macron went to the North to talk regarding unemployment while Marine Le Pen moved to Yonne.
19:20
Macron does not rule out referendum on pension reform
Asked by Bruce Toussaint if it would be possible to implement the pension reform by referendum, Emmanuel Macron replied in the negative, assuring that he would not rule out the referendum for any reform.
19:15
Jupiter wants to concert
Often criticized by the social partners during his five-year term for having implemented a very vertical method, Emmanuel Macron seems to take care to bring more roundness to the decisions he intends to make if he were re-elected. He promises to gather, to convince, to concert. “I don’t want to divide the country. I will not make this reform overnight, ”he concludes.
19:11
Macron defends his pension reform
The Head of State promises to consult before implementing raising the retirement age to 65. “I say today the system is no longer funded,” he said. If we accept a deficit on our pensions, that means our children, they are the ones who will pay “. He recalls his promise to index retirement pensions to inflation and to bring the minimum pension to 1100 euros for full careers. “I look at all our neighbors, we are between 65 and 67 years old,” he says.
19:07
Macron aims for full employment
“When we live in difficulty, we buy more words, we want actions”, explains Emmanuel Macron to give the reasons why an entire popular electorate refused to follow him in the first round. “We will continue, invest, bring back companies, train the unemployed, better integrate beneficiaries of the RSA”, he pleads.
19:05
A very special setting
The journalist Bruce Toussaint questions the candidate from the Le Bellevue café, in Carvin in the Pas-de-Calais. among the customers.
19:04
Emmanuel Macron’s interview begins on BFMTV
The outgoing president begins by thanking the French who voted for him in the first round. He recalls that no outgoing president achieved a better score in the first round of the second candidacy.
19:00
How Mélenchon built his first-round score
18:37
Anne Hidalgo expected at the turn by her majority
18:29
Medef supports Emmanuel Macron
In a press release issued on Monday evening, the Mouvement des entreprises de France believes that Emmanuel Macron’s program is the most favorable to growth and employment. Conversely, he believes that Marine Le Pen’s economic program would lead the country to fall behind its neighbors and put it on the margins of the European Union.
18:18
Macron – Mélenchon: bickering for a phone call
During his trip to Denain, the outgoing president claimed to have had an exchange of text messages with the third man in the presidential election, before discussing future exchanges with the other candidates. To several journalists, the former candidate explained that these exchanges “concern the fate of a foreign citizen residing abroad and heavily threatened with death. Nothing more, nothing less ”
18:10
Lassalle will vote white
In a long message on Facebook, Jean Lassalle leaves “to all those who were kind enough to trust (him) their free choice for Sunday April 24”. “Nothing will have shocked me more, during my long public life, than to hear instructions to vote”, he assures, specifying that, for his part, he will vote blank.
18:02
Julien Bayou condemns the deterioration of the EELV office in Nantes
The building was the target of projectiles and the inscription of the word “traitors” on its walls. The window was smashed where an election poster hung. The broken glass hid the face of the candidate, Yannick Jadot. “In a tweet, the national secretary of the party Julien Bayou “strongly” condemned these acts. “Nothing can justify attacks and invectives in a democracy! “, he adds.
18:02
Royal resents part of the left
“I want it” from Fabien Roussel, Anne Hidalgo and Yannick Jadot, says Ségolène Royal on BFMTV. “Those who did not withdraw bear a heavy responsibility and in addition they did not score high enough to repay their campaign,” insists the former minister.
17:55
Castex at Reunion this weekend?
According to our journalist, the Prime Minister plans to go to Reunion to campaign for the outgoing president at the end of the week.
17:47
TF1 audience champion
The choice of the first channel to make a very short election evening for the first round paid off: on average, 7.27 million viewers followed the special evening broadcast on TF1 from 7:50 p.m. to 10 p.m., i.e. 29.1% audience share. Over a longer period, France 2 brought together 4.58 million viewers (20% audience share) from 7:30 p.m. to 10:50 p.m.
17:41
Jean-Marie Le Pen believes in it
Marine Le Pen’s father judges that his daughter can win the presidential election by mobilizing voters ” once morest Macron’s policy”.
17:36
“I am counting on all the voters”
“Those who did not vote for Macron are destined to join me, I am counting on all French voters”, repeats Marine Le Pen, on the move in Yonne. In the polls “we are very close, I can win this presidential election”, she assures.
17:25
Le Pen puts inflation and purchasing power at the heart of his speech
“Beyond the increase in gas, fuel oil, electricity… There is a black cloud that is coming over the heads of the French and which will be inflation in the price of food”, assures Marine Le Pen in front of the press during her trip to Yonne, recalling that she wants to lower the VAT on energy. It was expected, the candidate of the National Rally begins her second round campaign on purchasing power, “an absolute priority”.
His move is “not at all” a response to that of Emmanuel Macron in the North, she also assures, criticizing him in passing for his late entry into the campaign.
17:20
“We believed it for a few minutes”
17:06
Le Pen and Macron fight at a distance
Purchasing power is a central theme on this first day of campaigning for the second round. In the North, Emmanuel Macron responds to criticism from Marine Le Pen on this subject. “On purchasing power, if we had not acted, you would pay 140% more for gas and 100% more for electricity,” he says. On gas prices, “we are facing a wall”, retorts Marine Le Pen. “It is not with checks that we are going to solve the fundamental problem”.
17:00
Macron on TF1 news tomorrow, Le Pen on Wednesday
The outgoing President of the Republic will answer questions from Gilles Bouleau and Anne-Claire Coudray at 8 p.m. Tuesday. Her rival Marine Le Pen will engage in the same exercise the next evening, under the same conditions.
16:49
Le Pen in the Yonne
The RN candidate arrived in Thorigny-sur-Oreuse, in Yonne, where she will meet farmers in particular. An improvised trip that begins with the theme of inflation and purchasing power.
16:48
Catholics vote more on the far right, Muslims preferred Mélenchon
Catholics voted 29% for the outgoing president ( once morest 27.5% for all French people), 27% for the candidate of the National Rally (23.3%), 10% for Eric Zemmour (7.1%), and at 7% for Valerie Pécresse (4.8%), according to an Ifop poll for La Croix published on Monday. The far-right candidates obtained 40%, if we add the votes in favor of Marine Le Pen, Eric Zemmour and Nicolas Dupont-Aignan (3%), which is more than all of the French (32.5%). Among Muslims, Jean-Luc Mélenchon is very far (69%) in front of Emmanuel Macron (14%) then the RN candidate (7%). The choice of Protestants went first to the outgoing president (36%), then to Marine Le Pen (17%) and third to Jean-Luc Mélenchon (16%), according to this study.
16:33
Dredge LFI voters
As expected, it is to the voters of Jean-Luc Mélenchon (who came in 3rd position at the end of the first round) that the candidates will turn in the next two weeks. On France Bleu, Julien Sanchez, spokesman for Marine Le Pen, assures that his party is addressed “to all voters, including those of Jean-Luc Mélenchon. We have a lot of measures that may interest (them), ”he insists.
16:23
Mélenchon thinks regarding the future
According to information from the Parisianthe candidate of France Insoumise, who came third in the first round, will take over “this fall” as head of the Institut La Boétie, which will become a political foundation.
