Emmanuel Macron after the announcement of the preliminary results of the first round of the French presidential electionPARIS, Apr 11 Incumbent French President Emmanuel Macron, after counting 90 percent of the ballots, leads the first round of presidential elections with 27.40 percent of the vote, according to the data of the French Ministry of Internal Affairs. In second place is Marine Le Pen with 24.58 percent of the vote. Jean-Luc Mélenchon, head of the left-wing France Insubordinate party, is in third place with 20.96 percent, while the far-right candidate and founder of the Reconquest party, Eric Zemmour, is in fourth place (6.94 percent). The fifth result was shown by the candidate from the center-right Republican Party, Valerie Pekress (4.76 percent). At the same time, after processing 45 percent of the protocols in the capital region of the country, Macron leads with 30.41 percent of the vote, followed by Mélenchon (25.24 percent), the third — Le Pen (16.76 percent). After counting 42 percent of the ballots in Paris, the incumbent head of state is in the lead with 38.99 percent of the vote. Le Pen is only sixth with 5.39 percent of the vote. The leaders are also: Mélenchon (24.52 percent), Zemmour (9.71 percent), Pecresse (7.98 percent) and the Green candidate Yannick Jadot (7.18 percent). The second round of the presidential elections in France will be held on 24 April.
