Presidential elections held in France went to the 2nd round and
President Emmanuel Macron received 28.4 percent of the votes, and his far-right rival Marine Le Pen received 23.4%, according to thmacrone exit poll held today in the first round. The two presidential candidates will face each other in the second round on April 24.
The two candidates faced each other again in the second round of the 2017 election. Macron was elected President of France with 66 percent of the votes in the second round. However, this time the second round of the election is expected to be more contentious.
If Macron is re-elected President of France in the elections to be held on April 24, he will become the first politician in his country to win the presidential election twice in a row in 20 years.
Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the candidate of the left-wing France Indomitable Movement in the first round, took the third place with an average of 20.1 percent of the ballots. The votes of other candidates remained below 8 percent.
