French elections 2022

French President Emmanuel Macron will again face his far-right rival, Marine Le Pen, in a runoff election for France's presidency on Sunday.

Le Pen previously spoke out in favor of Russia's 2014 annexation of Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula. For some, the former banker-turned-president is the lesser of two evils and a vote for Macron is considered a vote against Le Pen. Still, no one is ruling out the possibility of a triumph for Le Pen. However, she has been likened to former U.S. President Donald Trump with her hard-line policies on Islam and immigration. "She comes across as less extremist than before." Sunday's runoff is a rematch of the 2017 presidential election, in which Macron beat Le Pen by a landslide. Le Pen, 53, has sought to soften her rhetoric and image as the leader of the far-right French political party National Rally. She is no longer directly calling for France to leave the European Union and abandon the euro currency.

Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen are in the runoff to be the next president of France. Find out how the race is unfolding live.

For most of the campaign, it seemed that Macron, the incumbent president, would win comfortably in the second round. The runoff is decided by simple majority of valid votes: if either candidate gets one more vote than the other, he or she is elected. But a surge in Le Pen’s polling in the final weeks made this more doubtful.

If Macron's win is confirmed then it would make him the first French president in two decades to win a second term.

If Macron's win is confirmed then it would make him the first French president in two decades to win a second term. But that support dissipated in the days prior to the first round of voting on Apr. 10, as French citizens focused heavily on domestic affairs and soaring inflation. In a two-hour TV debate Wednesday, Macron called out Le Pen's previous ties with Russia and President Vladimir Putin, accusing her of being dependent on Moscow. Turnout on Sunday was 2 percentage points lower than the 2017 election, according to the Interior Ministry. Immediately after the projections, Le Pen spoke to her supporters in Paris and accepted defeat. The 2022 campaign was set against the backdrop of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, a cost of living crisis in France, a surge in support for the far-left among younger generations and suggestions of widespread voter apathy.

French President Emmanuel Macron and far-right leader Marine Le Pen faced off in the presidential election's final round.

“I also know that many of our compatriots voted for me today, not to support the ideas that I’m carrying, but to block those of the far right. to make of our country a great ecological nation.” “We will have to be strong but no one will be left by the wayside.” Shortly before wrapping up, Emmanuel Macron argued France must continue to play a leading role in addressing the war in Ukraine in his victory speech tonight. I am the depository of their sense of duty, of their attachment to the Republic, and of their respect for the differences that have been expressed in recent weeks.” “We had the system against us,” said one of them at Le Pen's electoral night, accusing French media of demonizing the right-wing candidate. “There are still lots of divisions, lots of misunderstanding… POLITICO found that the village had become the site of fierce contest between local campaigners vying for control in a region of France long-known as a far-right stronghold. In 2017, Macron won by a larger margin. There are very many of them.” “From now on, I am no longer the candidate of a camp, I am the candidate of all of you,” Macron said. A number of small demonstrations protesting Emmanuel Macon’s re-election have erupted in cities across France tonight.

As projections showed French President Emmanuel Macron is winning comfortably by 57.0-58.5 per cent of the vote, the total turnout for the presidential ...

The percentage of voting participation was also below by two percentage points from what it was at 5 pm in the first round of voting, which was held on April 10. The results have been based on a sample of the vote count. The percentage of voting participation was also below by two percentage points from what it was at 5 pm in the first round of voting, which was held on April 10.

Emmanuel Macron will win France's presidential election, pollsters project, fending off a historic challenge from right-wing candidate Marine Le Pen during ...

"You cannot properly defend the interests of France on this subject because your interests are linked to people close to the Russian power" Le Pen's ability to attract new voters since 2017 is the latest indication that the French public are turning to extremist politicians to voice their dissatisfaction with the status quo. This time, however, Macron had to run on a mixed record on domestic issues, like his handling of the yellow vest protests and the Covid-19 pandemic. These projections, which are based on data from voting stations that close at 7 p.m. in the rest of the country, are usually used by the candidates and French media to declare a winner. Still, Le Pen acknowledged the fact that the far right had never performed so well in a presidential election. Macron is projected to take 58.2% of the vote, according to an analysis of voting data by pollsters Ipsos & Sopra Steria conducted for broadcasters France Televisions and Radio, making him the first French leader to be reelected in 20 years.