MACRON RESULT. What will Emmanuel Macron’s result be in the second round of the 2022 presidential election? The first polling stations have closed in France and the counting begins. Follow the announcement of the figures live.
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The essential
- Emmanuel Macron’s result in the presidential election will soon be known. Will the outgoing president be re-elected for a new five-year term against Marine Le Pen? The first official figures are expected at 8 p.m.
- Many polling stations closed at 7 p.m. The first counts are thus in progress, while in the big cities, it is always possible to vote until 8 p.m.
- The first scores recorded in the polling stations already closed will make it possible to establish an estimate of the result, announced at 8 p.m., which will be refined over the course of the evening, at the rate of the recounts.
- The turnout at 5 p.m. in France was 63.23%, down from April 10 and down nearly two points from 2017.
- After the announcement of the results, whether in his favor or not, Emmanuel Macron will go to the Champ-de-Mars to speak, from the foot of the Eiffel Tower.
- Follow live the latest news on Emmanuel Macron on the occasion of the 2nd round of this presidential 2022 in our live.
Live
7:04 p.m. – A result known by the candidates from 7:40 p.m.?
BFM TV explains that when the gap between the two candidates is wide enough, they are informed of the results around 20 minutes before 8 p.m. Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen should therefore know the verdict before the announcement to the population.
7:03 p.m. – A small space reserved for the public in front of the stage at the Champ-de-Mars?
Emmanuel Macron’s speech at the foot of the Eiffel Tower will take place on a French stage, as was often the case during his mandate. The space reserved for the public is surprisingly quite small: there will be a maximum of 2,000 activists. On the other hand, there are many journalists: 600 French, approximately 600 foreigners
19:01 – The majority of polling stations closed
It’s 7 p.m.! The majority of polling stations have closed in France. It is now only possible to vote in major cities until 8 p.m. The counting of the smallest municipalities will begin.
6:50 p.m. – Emmanuel Macron’s entourage at HQ, the president at the Elysee Palace
Christophe Castaner arrives at Emmanuel Macron’s HQ. The main political advisers of the presidential candidate meet at HQ while the outgoing president will follow the results at the Elysée. Gabriel Attal has also just arrived, he will hold a meeting with the representatives of the outgoing president who will speak this evening on the TV sets.
6:48 p.m. – What time will Emmanuel Macron speak?
According to BFM TV, Emmanuel Macron’s speech must be held between 9:15 p.m. and 10 p.m. The Head of State will speak at the Champ de Mars.
6:43 p.m. – Emmanuel Macron at the Elysée Palace
LCI announces that Emmanuel Macron’s convoy has just reached the Elysée. The outgoing president is therefore currently at the presidential palace.
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If Emmanuel Macron is re-elected President of the Republic this Sunday evening, it will be the first time that an outgoing president has been re-elected at the Elysée Palace without having experienced a period of cohabitation since General De Gaulle in 1965. Indeed, in 1988, François Mitterrand had been re-elected while Jacques Chirac was Prime Minister. In 2002, the latter had retained his functions after having had Lionel Jospin as Prime Minister.
17:54 – A meeting between ministers and LREM executives after the election
According to LCI, Jean Castex will bring together some executives from the majority and the government in order to consult the results of the participation, then of the ballot. In the event of Emmanuel Macron’s victory, the Prime Minister should go to the Champs-de-Mars.
5:52 p.m. – 1,200 accredited journalists at the Champ-de-Mars
The French presidential election attracts journalists: 1,200 have been accredited to follow the announcement of the result from the Champ-de-Mars, where Emmanuel Macron has made an appointment with his supporters.
17:47 – Preparations at the Champ-de-Mars
The Champ-de-Mars is preparing to welcome Emmanuel Macron this Sunday evening. Whatever the outcome of the result, the president-candidate will speak from the foot of the Eiffel Tower. The platform, similar to the one on which he spoke in Marseille, is already up.
Good morning ! Tonight we are at the Champ-de-Mars, Emmanuel Macron’s headquarters for this second round election evening. The outgoing president will speak here. Obviously we chose the option “it’s sure it won’t rain” (Cc @20 minutes) pic.twitter.com/KUUvGzUqmr
— Rachel Garrat-Valcarcel (@Ra_GarVal) April 24, 2022
5:20 p.m. – Emmanuel Macron in a sweatshirt and cap on the beach in Le Touquet
Now less than three hours from the announcement of the result of the presidential election, Emmanuel Macron strolled on the beach of Le Touquet with his wife Brigitte. The President of the Republic had swapped his traditional presidential costume for a sweatshirt, jeans and a cap.
Emmanuel and Brigitte Macron walk on the beach of Le Touquet on the eve of the second round of the presidential election Photo Jacques Witt / Sipa Press pic.twitter.com/Fn6Gp4xZ91
— Jacques Witt (@JacquesWitt) April 23, 2022
5:15 p.m. – 63.83% stake in the Somme
In the Somme, whose prefecture is Amiens, birthplace of Emmanuel Macron, the turnout at 5 p.m. was 63.83%. A figure within the national average.
5:13 p.m. – 68.31% participation in Pas-de-Calais
At 5 p.m., the Ministry of the Interior announced that the turnout stood at 68.31% in Pas-de-Calais, a department which includes the town of Le Touquet, a town in which Emmanuel Macron voted this Sunday. in the early afternoon. A rate slightly higher than the national average.
5:04 p.m. – 63.23% turnout at 5 p.m.
The Ministry of the Interior has just communicated the latest figures on the participation rate. At 5 p.m., 63.23% of French people registered on the electoral lists had come to vote. This is less than in the first round (65%) and in the 2nd round of 2017 (65.30%).
5:00 p.m. – Discover the participation rate in the second round of the presidential election at 5 p.m.
The second round of the presidential election continues to reveal its key figures. At 5 p.m., the national participation is 63.23% according to the Ministry of the Interior. In 2017, the participation rate was 69.42%.
Learn more
Emmanuel Macron’s result for this 2nd round of the presidential election will be unveiled from 8 p.m. this Sunday, April 24 and updated throughout the evening in our live dedicated to the election. At 8 p.m., it is first of all estimates established by the polling institutes which will be communicated. It will be followed by partial and then complete results from the Ministry of the Interior. All the figures will be relayed here, in this article entirely devoted to the news of the president-candidate. If we base ourselves on the results of the previous elections, we will nevertheless know very quickly who will be the President of the Republic for the next 5 years.
As a reminder, Emmanuel Macron came first with 27.85% of the vote, ahead of the RN candidate with 23.15% in the 1st round 15 days ago. Emmanuel Macron thus improved his 2017 score (24.01%), even if abstention reduced this progress. He still gleaned more than a million additional votes (9.7 million against 8.6 million 5 years ago).
The Macron – Le Pen duel crystallized in the last two weeks of this presidential campaign. The invectives between the two finalists rose crescendo during the between-two rounds, Emmanuel Macron hammering in particular, during his big meeting in Marseille on April 16, who had to beat the far right. The president-candidate also accused his rival of incompetence and called her a climatosceptic in the home stretch. Silent before the first round or almost, he has several times pointed out the program of the candidate in this end of the campaign considering essential a “clarification” for the undecided. A strategy described as “brutal” by its rival in search of normalization.
Numerous polls have measured voting intentions in favor of Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen for the 2nd round of this 2022 presidential election. prohibited from communicating any trend that could influence the vote. Find out in our article published on Friday what to remember from the results of the polls on Emmanuel Macron and on this second round of the presidential election.
Emmanuel Macron, in this campaign between the two rounds, indicated that he wanted to “complete” and “enrich” his program, in particular on ecology which he very visibly prioritized, in particular with the concept of “planning ecological” dear to Jean-Luc Mélenchon and his constituents. The outgoing president said he was ready not to push back the retirement age to 65. He also indicated that he was “not opposed” to the establishment of a “full” proportional system for the legislative elections.