Macron triumphs in first round of presidential election for Le Pen

The centrist Emmanuel Macron and the far-right Marine Le Pen will play the French presidency in the second round, after taking the first two places in the first round of the elections this Sunday, according to the first forecasts of the votes already counted.

macronoutgoing president, would have won between 28.1 and 29% of the vote, while Le Pen between 23.3 and 24.2%, according to forecasts from three demographic companies.

The re-election candidate improves on five years ago when he won 24.01% of the vote in the first round, but Le Pen is also said to have better results than in 2017 when he had 21.30%.

The results mark a slight improvement for Macron compared to the latest polls, which also indicate that the current president would once again prevail in the second round, due to take place next week. day 24but with a smaller advantage than in 2017, when he nearly doubled Le Pen in votes.

According to today’s election forecasts, the candidate of the far right would outnumber the left one Jean-Luc Melenchonwhich won just over 20% of the vote in its third attempt to conquer the Elysée, slightly more than in 2017.

Also far right Eric Zemmour It would come fourth in that first round with 7% of the vote.

The candidate of the moderate right, Valerie Pecressehas signed the worst result in his party’s history and while some estimates place him above 5%, guaranteeing the state will fund his campaign, others leave it slightly lower.

Something similar happens to the ecologist Yannick Jadotwhich is also about 5% of the votes in the first estimates.

the ruralista jean lassalle about 3% of the vote, like the communist Fabien Rousselwhile the socialist Anne Hidalgomayor of Paris, according to forecasts would not reach 2%, like the sovereign Nicholas Dupont-Aignan

The two Trotskyist candidates, Philippe Poutou and Nathalie Arthaudwould remain below 1%.