The national gathering candidate has harvested 23.4% of the votes in the first round of the presidential election, behind Emmanuel Macron (28.4%). In the perspective of the second round, Marine Le Pen called the “French on the right, left and elsewhere, of all origins” to join his “gathering”.
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Cris of joy and relief at the headquarters of the Electoral Night of Marine Le Pen, at the Chasnaie Pavillon du Roy, in the Bois de Vincennes, when the two faces of the finalists of the presidential election are displayed at 8 pm: Emmanuel Macron, with 28.4% of votes, and Marine Le Pen, 23.4%. Under the eye of some 400 journalists from all over the world, several hundred militants enjoy the outcome of a long and laborious campaign for the national rally candidate (RN), tormented by Eric Zemmour, and who dreaded at midday A surprise qualification of Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
Relief to see the other right right candidate swept from the second round. With only 7% of the votes, Eric Zemour fails in his bet and calls to vote for the NR candidate. And, despite this competition, Marine Le Pen realizes a better score that in the first round of 2017 – it had harvested 21.30% of the votes (7.7 million votes) against 24.01% for Emmanuel Macron (8.6 millions). In total, the extreme right still wins more than 30% of the votes, according to the first estimates.
“Put France in order”
But the bubbles of the 360 bottles of champagne labeled “Marine President 2022” have for the frames and activists of the RN less the taste of the party that hoped. Despite its dynamic in the last straight line, Marine Le Pen has not managed to overtake Emmanuel Macron, as expected early in the evening leaders of the RN. “If it is before, it will be a click, a psychological shock that will deeply shake macron and will show that we can get rid of it”, anticipated MEP Gilles LeBreton.
Behind the scenes, his country team was about, feverish, to modify his profession of faith in the event that Marine Le Pen arrived in front of the president candidate. At 20 hours, all positivate: at least, it is qualified. “Better to be second that first. We will not explain that chaos arrives”, positive Thierry Mariani, smiling and hands in the pockets. The expected voice postponements of Eric Zemmour and Valérie Pécresse, to the lower scores provided in surveys, are also less fruitful than expected.
At 8:30 pm, Marine Le Pen addressed “all those who did not vote for Emmanuel Macron” by ensuring: “I will be the president of all the French.” “It is with the same Serious that I hear sewn the multiple fractures “and” put France in order “, projected. A speech that is more positive than in 2017, in the name of “family happiness” and a “protective and fair state”.
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