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MARINE LE PEN VOTES TODAY 4/10/2022 IN HENIN-BEAUMONT IN NORTHERN FRANCE
EMMANUEL MACRON VOTES IN TOUQUET ON THE ENGLISH CHANNEL COAST TODAY 4/10/2022
LINKS: BFM-TV FRANCE (TRANSLATION PROMPT)
BFM-TV LIVE FEED (IN FRENCH)
WIKIPEDIA-FRENCH PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION 2022
(THE FIRST PROJECTION PUTS EMMANUEL MACRON FIRST 28.50 PERCENT, MARINE LE PEN SECOND AT 24.20 PERCENT)
(THE FINAL VOTE COUNT MACRON 27.60 PERCENT, LE PEN 23.41 PERCENT)
Emmanuel Macron is said to want to face Marine Le Pen in the second round of this year's election because he can run against her as "racist" and "extreme" and "far-right" and draw the left into joining with his "centrist" voters.
Marine Le Pen seems in a stronger position than she was five years ago when she lost the second round to Macron 66-34 percent.
Le Pen focusing her message on economic issues as the economic threat has increased due to COVID and the sanctions imposed on Russia over Ukraine.
Le Pen has also appealed to the "little people" in her final message hearkening back to the early days of her father's political career.
Before he became known for his nationalist views and opposition to mass immigration Jean Marie Le Pen was involved in the Poujadiste movement in defense of small business owners in France during the 1950's.
Is Marine Le Pen on her way to "breaking the glass ceiling" and becoming the first woman in the Elysee Palace?
Needless to say a question not being posed in mainstream media today.
The usual "far-right" mantras with stories that her surge in popularity is hurting the financial markets.
Le Pen poised for a second place finish if polls are to be believed.
However are pollsters skewing the polls to shake things up?
Marine Le Pen warning her voters against apathy in a Friday video message and these high poll numbers for Le Pen drive fear into the hearts of the nearly 30 percent of the French considered to be on the "Left".
It could shake many of them into supporting Jean-Luc Melenchon who could come up to levels like Marine Le Pen's today.
The "Left" in France some Marxist Communist candidates along with Jannick Yadot a "Green" candidate Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo only getting two percent of the vote for the once mighty Socialist Party in the polling data.
Melenchon well above them all in popular support right now according to polls.
The "Right" in France split with "Les Republicans" the mainstream GOP type French party running Valerie Pecresse the leader in the Ile-de-France region which includes Paris and the new force on the "Right" television pundit Eric Zemmour.
Pecresse and Zemmour fading in poll numbers while Le Pen has risen. Other candidates on the right including Nicolas Dupont-Aignan whose DLF movement carries on the banner of Charles de Gaulle. Dupont-Aignan will get two or three percent of the vote polling suggests. He endorsed Marine Le Pen in the second round five years ago.
Emmanuel Macron the incumbent he is a former banker who turned politician presented as a new kind of leader five years ago a leader in the center, the middle socially liberal while being pro-free markets.
Macron won but then as he moved forward with his "centrist" policy planning to tax fuel in a bid to bring in more revenue without taxing business calling it "Green" the "Yellow Vests" protest movement rose across France.
It has faded since but economics and taxes all out there right now between COVID and the sanctions on Russia over Ukraine.
Macron talking with Vladimir Putin and pushing talks on Ukraine right now in election campaign mode not taking the harsh line against Russia coming from other leaders like Boris Johnson of the UK or the Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki.
The Polish Prime Minister comparing Macron talking to Putin to talking to Hitler.
Mr. Macron retorting that Morawiecki was a:
"far-right anti-Semite who bans LGBT people"...BBC NEWS
(1045 AM EASTERN US TIME, 445 PM IN FRANCE)
The mainstream media spin is of lower turnout today as compared to 2017.
25.48 percent showing up at mid-day as opposed to 28.54 five years ago.
In 2002 only 21.4 percent showed up at mid-day.
(130 PM EASTERN US TIME, 730 PM IN FRANCE)
The rate of voter abstention animating the media now with the polls soon closing. That rate 26.50 percent.
(2 PM EASTERN US TIME, 8 PM IN FRANCE)
The projection from BFM-TV 28.5 PERCENT FOR MACRON, 24.20 PERCENT FOR LE PEN.
Leftist Jean-Luc Melenchon projected third at 20.2 percent.
Macron and Le Pen move to the second round.
"La Marseillaise" sung at Marine Le Pen's headquarters as the projections were announced on the big screens.
Finishing fifth in the projection at 5.1 percent Valerie Pecresse of the mainstream "Right" in France "Les Repulicains".
The outspoken pundit on the 'Right' Eric Zemmour projected fourth at 7.1 percent.
The caption from Valerie Pecresse's headquarters as the reporter spoke from Valerie Pecresse's headquarters:
"La Douche Froid"
"The Cold Shower"
Voters driven away from her candidacy towards the big names on the ballot getting the media attention Macron and Le Pen.
PECRESSE TONIGHT SAYING SHE WILL VOTE 'IN CONSCIENCE' FOR MACRON TO STOP MARINE LE PEN
Tonight Anne Hidalgo of the Socialist Party, the Mayor of Paris, who got only 1.90 percent according to tonight's projection appealing to her supporters to vote Emmanuel Macron in the second round.
The Communist Party candidate Fabien Roussel, another also ran tonight, putting his support behind Macron.
Jannick Yadot, the "Green" candidate among the 12 in the first round, projected to get 4.4 percent today putting his support behind Emmanuel Macron.
Supporting the pundit Eric Zemmour who is the fourth place finisher tonight is Marion Marechal the niece of Marine Le Pen.
Marechal saying tonight she expects Zemmour to endorse Le Pen in the second round two weeks from today.
(430 PM EASTERN US TIME, 1030 PM IN FRANCE)
The new numbers in this race Macron at 28.1 percent, Le Pen 23.3 percent and Melenchon trailing at 21.2 percent.
The media saying Melenchon ran second among 18-34 year old voters behind Macron.
Speaking tonight Mr. Macron said regarding himself and Le Pen:
"the debate we will have in the next fortnight is decisive for our country and for Europe"
Macron thanking Valerie Pecresse and other candidates who have already endorsed him.
Candidate Nicolas Dupont-Aignan getting around 2 percent of the vote of the tonight the Gaullist candidate supporting Marine Le Pen in the second round.
TV PUNDIT ERIC ZEMMOUR SUPPORTS MARINE LE PEN
The fourth place finisher TV host (ala Sean Hannity-Tucker Carlson) Eric Zemmour endorsing Marine Le Pen in the second round tonight.
Zemmour saying he has disagreements with Le Pen but in the end urging his supports to vote for her.
(1215 AM EASTERN US TIME, 615 AM MONDAY IN FRANCE)
Jean-Luc Melenchon not endorsing Marine Le Pen but not endorsing Emmanuel Macron either.
Marine Le Pen urging all who voted against Macron to vote for her in the second round.
A poll of voters today indicated that 52 percent will support Macron in the second round and 48 percent will support Le Pen.
THE FINAL VOTE PERCENTAGES
With 100 percent of the 34,643,368 votes counted Emmanuel Macron 27.60 percent.
Marine Le Pen 23.41 percent.
Left candidate Jean-Luc Melenchon 21.95 percent.
TV pundit Eric Zemmour at 7.05 percent.
Les Republicans mainstream "Right" Valerie Pecresse 4.95 percent.
Yannick Jadot Environmentalist Left 4.58 percent.
Jean Lassalle Resistons Right 3.16 percent
Fabien Roussel French Communist Party 2.31 percent.
Nicolas Dupont-Aignan Debout la France Gaullist 2.07 percent.
Anne Hidalgo Socialist Party 1.74 percent.
Philippe Poutou New Anticapitalist Party Left .77 percent.
Nathalie Arthaud Lutte Ouvriere (Workers Struggle) Left .57 percent.
That's all. Good Night.
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