Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen will compete in the second round of the presidential elections in France. According to an Ipsos poll released by France 24, Macron is in the lead with 28.1%, while Le Pen is estimated at 23.3%. Third is Jean-Luc Mélenchon with 20.1%. According to an Ifop-Fiducial survey, reported by Le Figaro on its website, Macron would have obtained 28.6%, Le Pen 24.4%. Eric Zemmour, according to Ifop Fiducial, would have collected 6.8%, the candidate of the Républicains Valérie Pécresse less than 5%.
“The French people have done me the honor of entering the second round. I express my sincere gratitude to the voters. All those who did not vote for Emmanuel Macron today are called to join our group,” he said. Marine Le Penafter the first exit polls of the French presidential elections, assuring: “We will win”.
The Rassemblement National candidate “has improved her score, made a more important result than last time,” Le Pen spokesperson Sébastien Chenu told Bfmtv.
“Now it’s your turn. We know who we will never vote for. The French know what to do, they are able to decide what they should do. You don’t have to give Marine Le Pen a vote,” said the left-wing candidate of ‘France insoumise’ Jean Luc Melenchonfinished third in the elections.
“It is a personal and collective disappointment, I take all responsibility” he commented
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which stopped below 5%. “I had to fight on two fronts – he underlined – that of the outgoing president and that of the extremists. Despite the passion that drives us, the quality of our project, I was unable to get out of this atrophied campaign and convince you”. On the ballot, “I will vote in conscience for Emmanuel Macron” she said, “Marine Le Pen’s project would lead the country to discord, to failure, its proximity to Vladimir Putin discrediting it”.
“I seriously appeal to vote against the extreme right of Marine Le Pen and to vote for Emmanuel Macron” the words of the socialist candidate for the French presidential elections and mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, after the first round of voting in which he obtained 1.95 of the votes. “I know how disappointed you are and we will draw together an objective balance – he added – I swear that I will put all my energy into a republican France that is stronger, more beautiful and more just”.
While the right candidate Eric Zemmour appealed to vote for Le Pen: “I think of France first of all. I have disagreements with Marine Le Pen, but he faces a man who has let in two million immigrants, a man who has never said a word of identity and security during the campaign and who will do worse if he is re-elected. ” Then the appeal “to my constituents to vote for Marine Le Pen”.