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 more than 80 percent of the votes, leads in the first round of presidential elections with 27.31 percent of the vote, the leader of the right-wing National Rally party, Marine Le Pen, receives 25.70 percent, according to data from the French Ministry of Internal Affairs. After counting 81 percent of the votes of voters, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the head of the left-wing France Insubordinate party, is in third place (19.80 percent), the far-right candidate, founder of the Reconquest party, Eric Zemmour, is in fourth place (6.87 percent), and the candidate of center-right Republican party Valerie Pecresse (4.69 percent). At the same time, after counting 45 percent of the ballots in the capital region of the country, Macron leads with 30.41 percent of the vote, followed by Jean-Luc Mélenchon (25.24 percent), the third — Le Pen (16.76 percent). The second round of the French presidential election will take place on April 24.
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