Centrist Emmanuel Macron and far-right Marine Le Pen are battling for the French presidency in the second round. “Anyone who did not vote for Macron is invited to join this unification,” he said.
Extremely right Marine LePen (National Group), which this Sunday qualified for the second round of the French presidential election against the Liberal Emmanuel Macron (La República en Marcha), has asked “all those who did not support the candidate for re-election in the first round” to vote.
“On the 24th, two visions of society are at stake, that of division and disorder or that of the union of the French in social justice and protection. Anyone who did not vote for Macron is invited to join to join this unification,” said Le Pen, who is estimated to have received about 23% of the vote, three points less than the current president.
The results mark a slight improvement for Macron compared to the latest polls, which also indicate that the current president would again triumph in the second round, which will take place on the 24th, but with a lower advantage than in 2017, when he nearly doubled. . Le Pen in votes.
Macron, the outgoing president, would have won between 28.1 and 29% of the vote, while Le Pen would have won between 23.3 and 24.2%. 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%.
According to the forecasts of today’s elections, the candidate of the far right would overtake leftist Jean-Luc Mélenchon, who won just over 20% of the vote in his third attempt to conquer the Elysée, slightly more than in 2017.
Turnout in the first round of the French presidential election reached 65% at 5 p.m., the lowest figure since 2002, according to the latest data from the Ministry of the Interior.
Zemmour Support
Le Pen has already gained the support of the other far-right candidate, Éric Zemmour. “I ask voters to vote for Marine Le Pen,” Zemmour said in his speech after Election Day.
The main conservative, socialist and environmental candidates have already asked for the vote for Macron, while the third most voted candidate, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, of La France Insumisa, has not openly asked for the vote for Macron, but has called on voters to ” not give any voice” to Le Pen.
Source: EITB
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