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| Macron, Le Pen lead in 1st round of French presidential elections – projection | |
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| Emmanuel Macron of the centrist En Marche! party leads in the first round of the presidential elections in France, projections shows. Marine Le Pen of the National Front finished the tight race second. | |
| Macron received 23.8 percent of the votes and Le Pen 21.6 percent, according to French research firm IFOP. Another global research company, IPSOS, says the two candidates received 23.7 and 21.7 percent of the votes, respectively. | |
| Francois Fillon of The Republicans and Jean-Luc Melenchon of La France Insoumise are also among the top four. | |
| After the official results are announced, the top two candidates will then proceed to a run-off vote on May 7. | |
| The figures pretty much confirm previous estimates of who the top four contenders are in the race, out of a total of 11 candidates. | |
| Benoit Hamon of the Socialist Party, Nicolas Dupont-Aignan of Debout la France, Nathalie Arthaud of Lutte Ouvriere, Philippe Poutou of the New Anticapitalist Party, Jacques Cheminade of Solidarity and Progress, Jean Lassalle of Resistons!, and Francois Asselineau of the Popular Republican Union also initially vied for moving into Elysee Palace. |