Emmanuel Macron will face a run-off against Marine Le Pen, in what is far from a done deal.
It is to be a re-run of the 2017 second round, where Emmanuel Macron pulverised Marine Le Pen. But this time around, let no-one be under any illusion that it will be so easy.Voters gathered into three broad camps: Macron, the far-right and the far-left. In the last days of campaigning, many people who were considering other candidates finally decided that they would rather back a frontrunner.
And in the centre, many who would normally have chosen the Republicans' Valérie Pécresse will have plumped instead for the incumbent. Why? Because they were genuinely afraid that Le Pen and/or Mélenchon were coming up too strong from behind.Remember in France's weird system, it's only the top two who go through, and a small margin can make a vast difference. The prospect of a Le Pen-Mélenchon second round was not totally far-fetched.
As veteran political commentator Alain Duhamel put it on Sunday night: "the anti-system parties now have the loyalty of a majority of the French."Far-right candidate Éric Zemmour has urged his supporters to vote for Le Pen
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