French President Emmanuel Macron will face the far right’s Marine Le Pen in a presidential run-off on April 24.
President Emmanuel Macron and the far-right Marine Le Pen advanced to the second round according to the first-round polls.
The first round of voting for the presidential election, where 12 candidates competed in the country, ended at 20:00 local time. None of the candidates achieved the 50 percent majority in the first round to be elected president.
Macron won the first round of the election with 28.1 percent of the vote. Le Pen was second with 23.3 percent. The left candidate Jean-Luc Melenchon was 20.1 percent, the far-right Eric Zemmour was 7.2 percent, and the center-right Republican Party’s candidate Valerie Pecresse was 5 percent.
Macron and Le Pen, who took the first two places in the first round, will compete in the second round. The Constitutional Court will announce the official results of the first round of elections on April 13.
Macron and Le Pen were the candidates who finished the first round of the presidential election in the top two places in 2017.
