25.48% of voters voted until 12:00, a participation rate lower than in 2017 (28.54%).
25.48% of French state voters had voted at noon today in the first round of the presidential election, a figure lower than five years ago, according to data published by the Interior Ministry.
At the same time, in the previous 2017 elections, 28.54% had voted and the turnout stood at 77.8% at the end of the day.
What comparison, in 2012 the participation rate was 28.29% at the same time and in the 2007 elections 31.21%. The record low first-round turnout at noon was 21.40% in the 2002 election.
The possibility of high abstinence, even at record levels, at the 48.8 million citizens Calling to the ballot box is one of the keys to this day, according to voting intention polls.
The first among the candidates to go to the polls was the socialist Anne Hidalgo, mayor of Paris, who cast her vote in a school in the 15th arrondissement of the capital.
Then they voted progressive Jean-Luc Melenchon (left), Valerie Pecresse (conservative right), Eric Zemmour and Marine Le Pen (both far right) and Yannick Jadot (ecologist), one of the main candidates.
Instead, the current president, Emmanuel macronwas the last to vote in the small town of Le Touquet (north), where he is registered.
The surveys published through Friday predict that he will have to contest the second round on April 24 with far-right Marine Le Pen, who has moved closer to him in voting intentions by about three percentage points in the past three weeks.
Source: EITB
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