Paris, 10 April 2022 – The first round of presidential elections in France. As per forecasts, the ballot on April 24 will be a challenge between the outgoing Emmanuel Macron and the candidate of the right Marine Le Pen.
According to the latest survey by the Ipsos-Sopra Steria institute for French public television, Macron would win 28.1% of the votes, while the challenger stops at 23.3%. Jean-Luc Mélenchon is given at 20.1%. Eric Zemmour to 7.2% ahead of Valerie Pécresse (5%). Under the 5% threshold the ecologist Yannick Jadot (4.4%). Bad results for the socialists of Hidalgo which barely reaches 2%. Surprise instead for the Communist candidate Fabien Roussel to 2.5% with which it surpasses the socialists.
Hidalgo: “Pray I vote for Macron”
The mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, has launched an appeal to vote for outgoing president Emmanuel Macron in the second round. After hitting an all-time low of votes for a socialist candidate, 1.9%, Hidalgo spoke from headquarters about his election campaign. “So that France does not slip into everyone’s hatred against everyone, I gravely appeal to vote on April 24 against the extreme right of Marine Le Pen, using the ballot paper for Emmanuel Macron”, she said immediately afterwards. the dissemination of the first results