The outgoing President reached 28.1% of the votes, far ahead of Marine Le Pen (23.3%) and Jean-Luc Mélenchon (20.1%).
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The same decor as 2017. The same cries “Macron President!”. The same relief, too. But not quite the same euphoria. In the lobby 6 of the exhibition center of the Porte de Versailles in Paris, Sunday 10 April, seeing the scores of their candidate on the giant screen broadcast live the election evening of France 2, the activists of Emmanuel Macron Waving French and European flags have exploded with joy by seeing the head of the state at the top of the first round of the presidential election. With 28.1% of the votes, according to the first estimates disclosed at 8 pm at the release of the polls, by the Institute Ipsos-Storia Steria, the tenant of the Elysée widely exceeds his rival of extreme right, Marine Le Pen ( 23.3%), that he will face in the second round. A first victory, so. But with bitter taste.
The tenant of the Elysée realizes a much better score that five years earlier, where he obtained 24.1% of the votes, against 21.3% for Marine Le Pen. But its opponent of the national gathering (RN) is also progressing. And the gap that separates them is narrower than given the polls there is another month, after the triggering of the war in Ukraine by the Russian president, Vladimir Putin. Early March, Emmanuel Macron was then climbed up to 30.5% of the voting intentions according to the survey conducted by Ipsos-Sopra Steria in partnership with the Sciences Po Political Research Center (Cevipof) and the Jean-Jaurès Foundation for Le Monde, against 14.5% for the extreme right representative.
“When he [Emmanuel Macron] was 30%, I was thinking about Vote Roussel [Communist candidate] in the first round”, pleasant Matthew, militant the Republic (LRM). Seeing the potential of his candidate to erode week after week in the surveys while that of Marine Le Pen progressed, the young activist, who was 9 years old in 2002 when Jean-Marie Le Pen, father of Marine, franchified for the first time The first round of the presidential election, became excited. To the point, today, to say worried. “I hope we will make a louder campaign than in the first round, with more trips, more land. Everything is possible now, the” good time “of 2002, it does not exist anymore,” says he. At the time, a Republican Front had prevented the right right to imagine taking power.
“Macron should have debated”
“The campaign was hard, it shot in all directions. Macron should have debated” thinks David Mylle, volunteer for the campaign. Originally from Drancy, in Seine-Saint-Denis, the computer engineer remains safe, “in the second round, it will be Emmanuel Macron”. But the certainties of the beginnings are no longer there. “Even if Emmanuel Macron wins in the second round, it will not be a nice victory,” says Maxime, 20, students in PO and activist for LRM. “Morally, to see the extreme right so close to him, it hurts”, abounds his friend Lucas Kerouedan. The law student was still, a few hours earlier, activist for the Republicans (LR) Party of Valérie Pécresse candidate. But knowing his candidate in Perdition – Valérie Pécresse got 4.8% of the votes – the young man joined the Porte de Versailles to campaign now against the extreme party.
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