Macron wins the second round of the presidential elections
The current president Emmanuel Macron obtained 58.55 % of the votes, according to the Ministry of the Interior
The President of France, Emmanuel Macron, obtained 58.55 % of the votes in the second round of the presidential elections, according to the official results of the Ministry of the Interior, with the count already completed.
This count gives Macron 18.7 million votes, compared to 13.2 million obtained by his direct rival, Marine Le Pen, the leader of the National Group obtained around 41.45 % of the votes.
Both had already faced each other in the second round of the 2017 elections, when Macron won 66 % of the vote. In fact, Le Pen described his result this Sunday as “historic”, unprecedented for the extreme right in France.
Data from the Ministry of the Interior put the participation rate at around 72 %, so abstention would be 28 %, the highest since 1969. Of the 48.7 million registered voters, 13.6 million have not voted. Likewise, 4.57 % of the voters who have participated have voted blank, while 1.62 % correspond to invalid votes.
K. Tovar
Source: El Pais
