French presidential elections: first trends, the emergence of a duel between Macron and Le Pen

As always, it is the Belgian media that present the first trends in the French presidential election on voting day. It is already up to the French media to publish the numbers or estimates before the closing of the last polling station on French soil, i.e. 8pm local time.

On Sunday, April 10, 2022, the French were called to the polls to elect the twelfth president of the Fifth Republic. The second round will take place on Sunday, April 24th.

>>The free belgium And RTBF He started publishing his first estimate soon before 6 pm. The first RTBF indicated very cautiously, Macron-Marine le Pen, at 24%, followed by Jean Luc Mélenchon at 19%. These figures, which were taken up by other media outlets, were obtained from the Exit Polls Survey.

La Libre Belgique specifies that this survey was conducted by a major institute at 6 p.m. local time and that these are raw, uncorrected numbers.

At seven in the evening, the headquarters of the main candidates were moved according to French and Belgian media. Valerie Pecresse, who should not appear in the second round, was scheduled to speak at 8:30 p.m. local time.

>> It’s 7:10 PMLa Libre Belgique published the second estimate for “out of the polls”, with Macron taking first place with 24.7% and Marine Le Pen with 23.5%. He is still credited with JL Mélenchon with 19% and Pécresse as well as Zemmour with 8%.

Minutes later, the same newspaper quoted another poll, from a different institution, that gave Macron the lead with 25.2%. Le Pen is second with 24% and Melenchon is third with 20%.