France – Elections: Most who did not make it to the second round vote against Le Pen

Emanuel Macron takes first place in today’s first round presidential elections in France. The outgoing president, according to the estimates of the French television station BFM, gathers 28.5% of the votes against 24.2% of the extreme right Marin Lepen.

They are followed by Jean-Luc Melanson with 20.2% on the radical left, with 7.1% by the extreme right Eric Zemour and with 5.1% by the center-right Valerie Pecres. The rest of the candidates are moving below 5%. In general, the result is considered relatively satisfactory for Macron, less satisfactory for Le Pen, extremely satisfactory for Melanson, negative for Eric Zemour and “catastrophic” for the once traditional parties of France, namely the Republicans, the Ecologists, the Socialists. and the Communists.

Everyone’s interest is now focused on the messages that the leaders of the parties that do not pass in the second round will want to give. Valerie Pecres of the Republicans, Ann Indalgo of the Socialists, Fabien Roussell of the Communists and Yannick Zando have in one way or another declared their support for Macron, while Zemour in Le Pen. Finally, in his statements after the first election results, Melanson indirectly but clearly called on his voters not to vote for Lepen.

Source: News Beast

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