With 27.60% of the votes, the head of state came at the top of the first round of the presidential election, Sunday, ahead of his far-right rival, Marine Le Pen.
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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 Hall 6 of the Porte de Versailles Exhibition Center, in Paris, Sunday, April 10, see the scores of their candidate on the giant screen broadcast live the election evening of France 2, the partisans of Emmanuel Macron exploded with joy.
With 27.6% of the votes, the head of state comes at the top of the first round of the presidential election and largely exceeds his far-right rival, Marine Le Pen (23.41%), which he will face In the second round. A first victory, therefore, celebrated by waving French and European flags.
At the ferry of the last days, linked to the progressive erosion of the voting intentions in favor of the tenant of the Elysée and the continued progression of those of the representative of the national rally (Rn), has put a place a wind lightness. In a red t-shirt barred of an “Emmanuel Macron with you”, Jonathan Chatillon a student who wants to become a music teacher, is “super delighted”. “It’s beyond my expectations. Now, I think it’s done,” he raked about the victory in the second round.
Confidence found in victory, comforted, throughout the evening, by calls to vote explicitly for Emmanuel Macron or to barrage on the far right.
Cree thus accompanied the words of the candidate of France unsuitable, Jean-Luc Melenchon, repeating: “Do not give one voice to Mrs. Pen.” A lifesse also seized the little crowd when Anne Hidalgo , candidate of the Socialist Party (PS), called to traveled to the far right by sliding into the ballot box a bulletin for Emmanuel Macron, as did Yannick Jadot (Europe Ecology-Les Verts, EELV). Even the subject of Valérie Pécresse (Republicans, LR) reporting on his personal choice to vote in favor of the outgoing President to oppose Marine Le Pen gave rise to a wind of joy.
2017 carefree experienced
In the assistance, the housing minister, Emmanuelle Wargon, concedes him: “We are happy, simply.” The participation, better than expected, “no longer pose the question of the legitimacy” of this election, she says. And Emmanuel Macron has “a nice gap”, facing the NR candidate. Five years earlier, in 2017, the latter obtained 24.01% of the votes in the first round, compared with 21.30% for Marine Le Pen.
A joy, but no champagne. The buffet of activists, wine, beer and coca-cola. The 2017 carelessness has lived. The lessons have been selected. At the time, Emmanuel Macron had given the feeling of winning the election from the first round. The evening of thanks to his staff organized at the Brasserie de la Rotunda, in the 6 e Arrondissement de Paris, with some VIP, had recalled that of the Fouquet’s of Nicolas Sarkozy, during the victory of the Candidate from the right in 2007. While the extreme right was, once again, present in the second round, the agapes had appeared moved, disturbing even. “Dear friend, if you did not understand that it was my pleasure tonight to invite my secretaries, my security officers, policies, writers (…), who, since the first day, accompanied me It is because you have not understood anything to life! “, launched, Bravache, the candidate for those who had offended himself. Before concluding: “I do not have lessons to receive from the Parisian medium.”
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