Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen will face each other in the run-off for president of France
Emmanuel Macron has warned his supporters that “nothing has been done” as the French president faces a run-off battle with far-right opponent Marine Le Pen.
The pair finished first and second in Sunday’s first round, and Mr Macron traveled to a poorer region of northern France on Monday, backed by Ms Le Pen and her National Rally party two weeks ago.
Opinion polls suggest Macron is ahead, but Ms Le Pen, whose team will meet on Monday to discuss its strategy for voting in the second round on April 24, is not far behind.
Mr Macron said he wanted to reassure those who voted for “extremes” that “our project is much more responsive to their fears and the challenges of the times”.
Ms Le Pen’s campaign wants to focus on rising food and energy prices and anger at Macron over policies that are seen as benefiting the rich.
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Preliminary final results give Macron 27.8% and Le Pen 23.2%
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Marin Le Pen is campaigning in the Burgundy-Franche-Comté region
Marin Le Pen is campaigning in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region southeast of Paris.
The leader of the National Rally spends time in the cities of Yonne and Turin-sur-Orez, Le Monde reported.
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Republican survival is at stake, says the failed presidential candidate
Valerie Pecres, the failed Republican presidential candidate, asked supporters to donate money to the party, saying its survival was at stake.
She said the party owed 7m euros after winning just 4.79 per cent of the vote, below the 5 per cent needed for its campaign to be paid for by taxpayers. She tweeted that 5 million euros of them were personally invested by her.
“The results mean we will not be reimbursed by the state,” she said.
“I have issued a national appeal for donations. The survival of the republican right depends on this.
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Macron carries an election campaign to the northern city of Dennen
Emmanuel Macron is campaigning in the northern city of Dennen, once proud of being the capital of France’s mining and steel industry, but where in 2019 almost half of the population lived in poverty and one in three active people was unemployed in 2018. .
Marin Le Pen won 42 percent of the city’s vote on Sunday.
The mayor of Denain Anne-Liz Dufour-Tonini meets Emmanuel Macron during a day visit to Hauts-de-France, the town hall of Denain
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Mr Macron spoke to voters in front of Denen’s town hall
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Macron’s visit to Dennen also drew protesters who opposed another term of the current president
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Macron wins the support of rivals
Presidential candidates were quick to show support for Emmanuel Macron after the countdown ended in many regions on Sunday.
Anne Hidalgo, the mayor of Paris, supported Macron in the next vote, “so that France does not hate everyone against everyone”.
Far-left candidate Jean-Luc Melenchon, who finished third, also urged his supporters not to vote for Marin Le Pen. He said: “There should be no vote for Le Pen in the second round.
However, far-right candidate Eric Zemor supported Ms Le Pen.
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“The far right sets the agenda in French politics” – Director of Chatham House Europe
Hans Cudnani, director of the Chatham House think tank program for Europe, said the results showed a “right-wing diversion in French politics”.
He said: “The results of the first round of the French presidential election confirm two trends in French politics – which are to some extent applied in much of the rest of Europe.
“The first is the restructuring of politics around the rift between centrism and populism. Both center-left Socialists and center-right Republican candidates received less than 5 per cent of the vote – a historically low level. The second round will be between Macron and Le Pen, as it was five years ago – both considered “beyond left and right”. In other words, they reflect each other. From a democratic point of view, this restructuring is disastrous.
“The second trend, which is related to the first, is the deviation to the right in French politics. Although the second round will be a repeat of 2017, Le Pen is in a much stronger position this time. Jean-Luc Melanchon received 22 percent of the vote – indicating that the left is still strong in France, although it has distanced itself from the Socialist Party, its traditional tool.
“But it is the far right that is increasingly setting the agenda in French politics – as can be seen from the way center-right candidates such as Republican candidate Valerie Pecres have adopted far-right tropes as the idea of a ‘great substitute’ during the campaign.
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Le Pen won only 5% of the vote in Paris
Emmanuel Macron secured more than a third of the vote in Paris, while Marin Le Pen won just 5 percent in the capital.
However, the far-right candidate was more popular in other regions of France.
Ms Le Pen won 33 per cent of the vote in the northern Hauts-de-France region, where Macron campaigned on Monday.
But the left-wing candidates were far behind, winning a total of 27-28 per cent of the vote in the district.
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The poll puts Macron on track to win 55% in the runoff
A new poll puts Emmanuel Macron on track to win the second round of the presidential election with 55 percent of the vote.
Opinionway-Kea Partners’ survey of Les Echos and Radio Classique suggests a turnout of 71 percent in the runoff.
About 2,174 respondents were asked about their preferences to vote between April 10-11, with a margin of error of +/- 2.3 points.
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Photos from the first round of elections in France
Emmanuel Macron reacted on stage after partial results were announced on Sunday night
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Nearly 50 million French people were called to vote
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Marin Le Pen spoke during an election night event after the first round of voting
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Supporters of third-place finisher Jean-Luc Melenchon react after losing in Paris
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Macron “against forming a coalition” to secure power
French Finance Minister Bruno Le Mer said on Monday that Emmanuel Macron was against forming a coalition government.
Asked about forming a pact between parties with different biases to help Macron stay in power, Mr Le Mer said: “I don’t think we have any interest in having a puzzle-style majority of small pieces to reconfigure. ”
Mr Le Mer also said that topics often linked to the political left, such as the fight against climate change and the strengthening of the European Union, would play a key role in the next two weeks of the campaign.
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