Apparently, France will again experience a ballot between the current president Emmanuel Macron and the far-right Marine Le Pen, the most voted candidates this Sunday in the first round of the presidential election. According to Ipsos projections, Macron takes a greater advantage than expected in the latest polls: The president collects around 28 percent of the vote, while Le Pen stands at around 23 percent, just 0.8 percent above Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
Despite the context of the vote, held after an atypical campaign marked by the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the candidate for re-election It improves the results achieved five years ago, when in the first round he got 24.01 of the vote, but Le Pen would also achieve better results than in 2017, when he had 21.30 percent.
Meanwhile, the left-wing candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon (with 22.2 percent of the vote, according to Ipsos in its latest update) remains at the gates of the second round that will take place on April 24. “Not a single vote should be given to Le Pen!”, after the first results are known, without explicitly calling for a vote for the current president.
The far-right Éric Zemmour would also be fourth in this first round with 7 percent of the votes and did not hesitate to support Le Pen for the second round. While the candidate of the moderate right, Valérie Pécresse, signed the worst result in the history of her party, with a result of around 5 percent. Something similar happens to the ecologist Yannick Jadot.
For his part, the ruralist Jean Lassalle reaches 3 percent of the vote, like the communist Fabien Roussel, while the socialist Anne Hidalgo, mayor of Paris, would not reach 2 percent, according to projections, like sovereignist Nicolas Dupont-Aignan.
Finally, the two Trotskyist candidates, Philippe Poutou and Nathalie Arthaud, would remain below 1 percent.
Low involvement
Participation in the first round of the presidential elections in France it meant one of the lowest in its history, averaging an abstinence of 26 percent of the census, according to official authorities at the beginning of the count.
As reported The worldOnly in the first round election of 2002 was there less participation than this Sunday. Back then, J.acques Chirac obtained 19.88 percent of the votes, while Jean Marie Le Pen – father of the current candidate – reached the ballotage with 16.88 percent.
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Shortly after the first results were known, the far-right candidate proclaimed her ticket to the second round and thanked the voters for their trust.
“Thank you to the millions of voters who put their trust in me. Sunday April 24, let us unite to seek victoryLe Pen wrote on her Twitter account.