With more than 40% of the vote, Jean Luc Mélenchon came out on top ahead of Emmanuel Macron (37.88%) and Eric Zemmour (6.67%). Marine Le Pen comes 4th with 4.53% of the vote.
Subject to official publications, the first results give: in the broad sense, the right loses 19 points to the benefit of the left (+13 point) and the center (+6 points). The collapse of the right comes mainly from LR which would be at 3.5% against 29% in 2017. On the left, JLM goes from 26 to 40%. Here are the tentative details:
At the announcement, on Sunday evening, of the first estimates of the results of the first round of the presidential election in France, which brought outgoing President Emmanuel Macron to first position, followed by Marine Le Pen, almost all the other candidates having not had the favor of voters gave voting instructions in favor of Mr. Macron in the 2nd round which will take place on April 24.
The outgoing president finished first after the first round with 28.5% of the vote, while the candidate of the National Rally came in second place with 24.2% of the vote, according to the first estimates published shortly after the closing of polling stations.
Indeed, all the candidates who were unable to pass the second round gave instructions to their supporters not to vote for Le Pen with the exception of the polemicist Eric Zemmour.
Speaking from his headquarters, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, leader of France Insoumise, who came third with just over 21% of the vote, according to polls, called for no votes to go to Madame Le Pen. He urged his party’s activists not to make mistakes that would be “definitely irreparable”, referring to a possible victory for the far-right representative in the second round.
The representative of the Republicans (LR) Valérie Pécresse, who collected 5.1% of the votes finishing in fifth place, said for her part that she will vote for the outgoing president against Marine Le Pen.
“I will vote in conscience Emmanuel Macron to prevent the coming to power of Marine le Pen and the chaos that would result from it,” she said.
“I do not own the votes cast on my name. But I ask the voters who have honored me with their confidence to weigh in the days to come with seriousness the potentially disastrous consequences for our country and for future generations of any choice different from mine that they would consider for the second turn, ”said candidate LR.
Same support shown by the environmental candidate Yannick Jadot, who came sixth with 4.4% of the vote, who called on his supporters to vote for Emmanuel Macron to “block the far right”.
For his part, the communist candidate, Fabien Roussel, who collected 2.4% of the vote to finish 8th in the first round, called for Emmanuel Macron to be voted in the second round in order to block the far right, without however mentioning by name the outgoing president.
“Next Sunday, I will make the choice of responsibility, I would never allow a racist and xenophobic project to gain responsibility in France. I make this choice and I know that it is increasingly difficult to say it, ”he said shortly after the announcement of the first estimates.
Along the same lines, Socialist candidate Anne Hidalgo, who came in 9th place with 1.9% of the vote, clearly showed her support for Mr. Macron, urging Socialist Party activists to vote “against the far right”. .
“So that France does not fall into hatred of all against all, I call on you with seriousness to vote on April 24 against the extreme right of Marine Le Pen by using Emmanuel Macron’s ballot paper”, a- she said from her campaign headquarters.
Other French political figures also showed their support for the outgoing president against the representative of the far right, as soon as the first estimates were announced.
When Eric Zemmour, he said that even if he does not share the ideas of Mrs. Le Pen he invites his supporters to vote for her. Nearly 49 million French people were called to the polls on Sunday to elect their president, in an election between twelve candidates.
This is the twelfth presidential election of the Fifth Republic and the eleventh by direct universal suffrage.