French Finance Minister Bruno Lemerre said today that Emanuel Macron would spend the next two weeks trying to persuade voters to vote for him in the second round of the presidential election, adding that he was opposed to forming a coalition government. Asked about the possibility of forming a coalition between parties of different tendencies […]
Tag: France presidential 2022
France: Macron wins in the first round, will face Le Pen in the second round
LAST UPDATE: 09.45 Outgoing head of state Emanuel Macron, as expected, prevailed in the first round of the presidential elections in France held yesterday Sunday, followed by the leader of the French far right Marin Le Pen, with whom he will face in the second and decisive round of the 24th announced much more ambiguous […]
France: Haircut country
By Costas Raptis For French President Emanuel Macron, the ballot boxes for the presidential election came as early as necessary. The result was a halt to the decline in his candidacy over the past month (ie after the announcement of his program with a central element in the pursuit of pension reform) and the upward […]
Macron or Le Pen: Why it matters to France, the EU and the West
The French will decide on April 24 whether to re-elect the current French president Emanuel Macron or whether to choose the far right Marine Le Pen. Reuters presents what we can expect from the two candidates on key issues: Economy Lepen: Lepen transformed the former National Front, turning her father’s party into a costly and […]
Le Pen: I will put France in order in five years
LAST UPDATE: 23.14 The far-right candidate Marine Le Pen, who ran in the second round of the French presidential election after Macron, today called on the French to “gather” around a “great national and popular project” and “implement the great alternation”. “What will be played on April 24 will be a choice of society and […]
France: Who do they say will be supported by the candidates who did not make it to the second round?
LAST UPDATE: 22.39 French left-wing candidate Jean-Luc Melanson has called on his supporters not to vote for far-right candidate Marine Le Pen in the second round of the April 24 presidential election. “We know who we will never vote for … you must not support Le Pen … there must not be a single vote […]
France: Macron leads Le Pen in the first round, and both advance to the second round
LAST UPDATE: 23.57 THE Emanuel Macron occupies the first place in the current first round of presidential elections in France. According to the latest official figures, after counting about 38 million votes, Macron has 27.4% of the vote against 25.54% of the far right Marin Lepenas reported by Reuters. Earlier, according to estimates by the […]
France: Le Pen’s risk keeps markets alert to French election results
European investors shocked by the rise of the far right in France’s presidential election are awaiting the results of the first round, which is expected later on Sunday, according to Bloomberg. The euro, French stocks and even Italian bonds are among the assets that have come under pressure as opinion polls have dramatically narrowed the […]
French elections: 1 in 3 say undecided
The first round of the presidential elections started in France today. Polling stations opened at 8 a.m. About 48.7 million voters had registered to vote. Shortly before the official end of the election campaign in France, Emanuel Macron even tried to mobilize his supporters with a series of interviews, according to Handelsblatt. “My mood is […]
Due to the poll reduction of the difference between Macron-Lepen
The polls opened Sunday morning in France in an ambiguous race between Emanuel Macron and nationalist leader Marine Le Pen. The French election has many ups and downs, according to Bloomberg, and it did not disappoint – an early belief that the vote would be a repeat of 2017, when Macron faced Le Pen and […]
