French President Emmanuel Macron at a press conference following talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin in the KremlinPARIS, Feb 9 .French President Emmanuel Macron, who has not yet officially announced his participation in the elections, restored access to the domain names of the websites macron-2022.fr and macron2022.fr, which can be used for the election campaign, according to the Numerama portal. According to the publication, the relevant requests for the restoration of access to these domain names were sent to the French Association for Cooperation in Domain Names (AFNIC) back in November. They were approved on December 15th and 28th.Putin gives Macron a choiceThe election websites of a number of French presidential candidates, including far-right Eric Zemmours and Jean-Luc Mélenchon, leader of the left-wing Defiant France party, also contain the name of the candidate and the year in which the elections take place: zemmour2022.fr. melenchon2022.fr. Macron has not yet officially announced himself as a candidate for the elections to be held in France in two months, but earlier he made it clear that he has such a desire. The first round of the presidential elections in France will be held on April 10, the second on April 24. A number of candidates have already declared their desire to run for the presidency. Among them are the leader of the far-right National Rally party, Marine Le Pen, the candidate of the center-right Republican Party, Valerie Pecresse, the journalist and writer of the far-right views, Eric Zemmour, who founded the Reconquest party, and the head of the left-wing France Unsubdued party, Jean-Luc. Mélenchon, member of the Europe-Ecology-Greens party Yannick Jadot, National Secretary of the Communist Party Fabien Roussel, Mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo (Socialists), former French Minister of Justice Christian Tobira.
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