At the foot of the Parisian monument, in addition to many militants from Macron’s front, three of his ministers, Clément Beaune (European Affairs), Eric Dupont-Moretti (Justice) and Jean-Yves Le Drian (Foreign Affairs) came out to celebrate the result, waiting for the act where the re-elected president will speak in public.
For her part, the candidate and opponent of the extreme right, Marine Le Pen, reached 41.8% of the votes, according to the provisional count. After 9:00 p.m. (3:00 p.m. in Argentina) the first provisional results were released that already show a clear tendency towards victory for the current president, who is expected to speak in public to confirm the victory.
In a press conference, Marine Le Pen spoke after the closing of the elections and expressed that she does not feel like a loser in the ballot since “it is a form of hope, the aspiration for change cannot be ignored”, after reaching 40% of the votes. “I am launching the great battle of the legislative elections tonight,” she said in her bunker before the media present there.
In her speech after the vote, Le Pen stressed that her election result was a “resounding victory” and launched “an appeal to all those who want to join us to oppose Emmanuel Macron’s policy.” He concluded his speech by promising: “I will never abandon the French.”
The electoral roll is made up by 48.7 million people (more than 1.6 million residents abroad) and the votes will take place between 8 am and 8 pm (3 am and 5 pm in Argentina).
Macron won the victory in the first round on April 10 last with 27.85% of the votes but he ended up with a bitter taste when he found out the narrow distance with his rival, who reached 23.15%.
“April 24 is a referendum for or against the European Union, ecology, youth and our Republic,” Macron defended, calling the second round a “true choice of civilization.”
Only three candidates urged their bases to vote explicitly for Macron, while the candidate from the left and third in the race Jean-Luc Mélenchon (21.95%) asked “not to give a single vote to Le Pen” but without rule out blank voting or abstention as alternatives.
News in development.-
Source: Ambito
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