Marine Le Pen after the announcement of the preliminary results of the first round of the French presidential electionMOSCOW, Apr 11French presidential candidate from the far-right National Rally party, Marine Le Pen, still has a chance of winning in the second round, although this is «unlikely», French political scientist Alain de Benoist told RIA Novosti. The first round of the presidential elections in France took place on April 10 . According to the final data of the French Interior Ministry, incumbent President Emmanuel Macron won 27.84% of the vote, the leader of the far-right National Rally party Marine Le Pen — 23.15%. The second round will take place on April 24.» Marine Le Pen will make the second round a kind of big referendum against Macron, uniting the votes of the right and the left, while Macron will call for a blockade of the far right. A Marine Le Pen victory remains unlikely, but not completely impossible «, — said de Benoit. The expert noted that the campaign of the far-right founder of the Reconquest party, Eric Zemmour, made Le Pen less of a far-right candidate during the first round. Despite Zemmour on Sunday urging his supporters to vote for Le Pen in the second round, de Benoist said, the two candidates have very different electorates and different strategies. Therefore, the political scientist assumes that there will be a division between the far right and the center right, and voters with more moderate views will elect Macron. «The main event is the collapse of the classical right, represented by Valerie Pekress. Following the Socialist Party, which no longer represents anything, everyone the old, so-called government parties, giving way to three new blocs: the bourgeois-elitist bloc around Macron, the popular bloc around Marine Le Pen, and the composite left-wing bloc led by far-left candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon, who will serve as judge in the second round «, — added de Benoit. In the first round, Mélenchon came in third with 21.95% of the vote, Zemmour won 7.07%, and Pekress 4.78%.
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