The first round of the presidential election has therefore delivered its verdict. Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen will face each other in the second round, after having received 27.60% and 23.41% of the vote respectively, according to the almost final results of the Ministry of the Interior. based on 97% of registered voters, Monday April 11. These scores remain to be completed with the results of French people living abroad. While the polls gave the outgoing president hot on the heels of the RN candidate, the first therefore obtained a better score than expected. This poster takes on an air of revenge after the 2017 election, where the two candidates had already clashed.
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The rebellious Jean-Luc Mélenchon made a rise throughout the evening in the estimates, thanks to the later counting in the big cities, but he failed in third place (21.95%). He therefore missed the march of the second round by a short head despite the mobilization of the “useful vote”. He wipes there his third failure in the presidential election, despite a better score than in 2017, which reinforces the central role on the left of La France insoumise.
After briefly dreaming of the second round in the fall, Eric Zemmour (Reconquest!) won 7.05% of the vote. This election confirms the relegation of the two parties that governed France from the Fifth Republic until 2017, which achieved the worst score in their history: Valérie Pécresse (LR) simply won 4.79% of the vote – and did not reach the reimbursement threshold for campaign expenses – and Anne Hidalgo (PS) is content with 1.74%. The environmental candidate Yannick Jadot peaks at 4.58%, ahead of the candidate of Résistons! Jean Lassalle (3.16%), Communist Fabien Roussel (2.31%), Debout la France candidate Nicolas Dupont-Aignan (2.07%), NPA candidate Philippe Poutou (0.77%) and the candidate of Lutte Ouvrière Nathalie Arthaud (0.57%).
The vast majority of the political class called to vote for Emmanuel Macron in the second round against the far-right candidate Marine Le Pen, who for her part received the support of Eric Zemmour. The outgoing President of the Republic thanked the candidates – Anne Hidalgo, Yannick Jadot, Fabien Roussel and Valérie Pécresse – who granted him their “support” and greeted the “clarity” of those who call as LFI to “stop the far right“. The outgoing president seems to have a short advantage, without certainty however on the reserves of votes of the two finalists.