France's Presidential elections April 2022
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Surely someone must have broken the law to release those results initially?
Yeah, few tweets of those results doing the rounds from French commentators. A huge swing for MLP if those results hold, although voting continues until 7/8pm CET so anything still in those 3 islands.
Not surprising. In the first round Mélenchon won these territories (over 50%) and Le Pen came second ahead of Macron… It’s an expected protest vote against Macron.
Unless they voted yesterday the poll stations have only been open for two hours
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First leaked polls. Macron win with 10 to 16 points.
Of course Macron wins this.
Thankfully
Macron's won easily
Groovy.
Look at where the results were from. Remember France isn’t just on one continent; many of its overseas territories are integrated into the country proper.
Fingers crossed that’s going to be Le Pen out of the picture for a while now her Russian financiers are out of the picture.
Yes I know, I wasn't aware the western votes (Americas) were held yesterday. I was expecting results from the East like Réunion and Mayotte to be leaked first as they are in front of us timewise.
| Marine Le Pen | 52,45% | 182 |
| Emmanuel Macron | 47,55% | 165 |
| Participation au scrutin | |
|---|---|
| Taux de participation | 75,80% |
| Taux d'abstention | 24,20% |
| Votes blancs (en pourcentage des votes exprimés) | 8,42% |
| Votes nuls (en pourcentage des votes exprimés) | 5,69% |
| Nombre de votants | 404 |
I apologise on behalf of my village
Arrêter le vol!
Why did Le Pen get so many votes though? What attracted voters to her?
Anti-Macron voters. Gullible people , flag-wavers plus the racists and xenophobes of course; Even if you hated Macron, voting for Le Pen would not make anyone's life better but some people believe it.
Europe can breathe easy.
Le Pen never had a chance, it was just the media trying to give her one to manufacture drama.
Idiocy.
The vote splits in the first round, Mélenchon didn't do a deal with the commies costing him a place in the run off... That would have been more interesting.
Both candidates are dreadful, similar to the US election. Macron is least bad, just about I guess.
I hope that French prosecutors can succeed in indicting Le Pen wherever their American counterparts are currently either failing or dithering regarding Orange Hitler.
Thank God. Congrats and well done to France.
No it was Laura Kuensberg.
Is there any information on the turnout. And if so, was it typical.
Like most things now - anti mainstream and protest voting from people who knew she wouldn't win but wanted to show anger
Looks quite low, lower than last time. Also where I live the weather was absolutely atrocious today, gale force winds and torrential rain all day - don't know about elsewhere.
He is embarrassing, the man has no shame. Dude wasn't happy to work at night and in August.What do you think of Mélenchon hoping to be Prime Minister
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It was raining this morning and it never rains around here.
This seems to be a running theme for a lot of countries these days. Is there actually a country that has a leader that is good and most people are happy with?
New Zealand?
China
Russia (or do you fancy a holiday in a gulag)
New Zealand?
I take it Le Pen has the same dodgy media campaigns working overtime in her favour as others of her kind around the world?
Yep-i can understand why people say politics is broken when the choice a lot of the time seems to be 'who is the least horrible person', or, "i'm not really inspired by this person at all but i'll vote for them because I hate such and such". No one's really offering a lot of hope/positivity I've noticed.
Considering my question was open ended i probably should have seen those responses coming. I was wondering more to the left like New Zealand it seems judging by the other responses.
Putin's bots have been working overtime on social media;