Today at 8 o’clock in the morning the polling stations opened in France. Among the candidates for the presidency of the country are Macron, Le Pen, Mélenchon and Pecresse.
French citizens will have to make a choice between the candidates among whom the incumbent French leader Emmanuel Macron, the representative of the right-wing populist party National Rally Marine Le Pen, the leader of the Defiant France party Jean-Luc Mélenchon and the Republican candidate Valerie Pecresse, were in the lead.
The undisputed favorites, according to public opinion polls, are Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen. In the last elections in 2017, politicians advanced to the second round of elections, as a result of which Le Pen lost almost twice to Macron (33.9% and 66.1% of the vote, respectively). Approximately 49 million French people have the right to vote in the country. Polling stations will be open to them from 8 am to 7 pm local time.
Among the competitors of the confident favorites are the ex-publicist of the right-wing radical, the head of the Reconquista movement, Eric Zemmour, the candidate from the center-right Republican party, Valerie Pecresse, the leader of the left-wing party, Insubordinate France, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the representative of the Europe-Ecology-Greens party ” Yannick Jadot, mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo of the French Socialist Party.
The President of France is elected for 5 years. If none of the candidates gains an absolute majority in the first round, then a second round is held between the two candidates who received the largest number of votes. The post of head of state cannot be held for more than two consecutive terms. dw.
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