Macron-Le Pen replay reveals deeper French splits - pierrebri -
French President Emmanuel Macron and his far-right challenger Marine Le Pen will face each other in the runoff of the presidential election to take place on April 24, according to early projections of the results of the first round that took place on April 10.
Macron garnered 28.1%-29.5% of votes in the first round, while Le Pen won 23.3%-24.4%, according to separate estimates by pollsters Ifop, OpinionWay, Elabe and Ipsos. Those estimates, published as voting ended, are usually very reliable in France. Hard-left candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon polled third with an estimated 20% of the vote, while mainstream conservative party candidate Valérie Pécresse received less than 5% and Socialist party candidate Anne Hidalgo less than 2%.
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