France’s Macron beats Le Pen to win second term

PARIS, 25 April 2022, (TON): According to estimates from the Ipsos polling institute “Emmanuel Macron has been re-elected for a second term as French president on Sunday, with 58.2% of the vote.”

The interior ministry said “turnout for the French presidential run-off stood at 63.2 percent at 5 p.m., down by more than two percentage points from the same time in the second round of the 2017 presidential race.”

Participation was also two percentage points below what it had been at 5:00 pm in the first round of voting on April 10, when President Emmanuel Macron and his far-right challenger Marine Le Pen advanced to the run-off.

On the basis of the official figures, polling organizations estimated that the abstention rate was on course for 28 percent which, if confirmed, would be the highest in any presidential election second-round run-off since 1969.

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