France is voting in the first round of a presidential election that polls suggest could be uncomfortably close for President Emmanuel Macron. Here’s what to know:
“He’s so disrespectful,” Tiberj said, that Le Pen appears relatively moderate to voters. “But she didn’t move,” he said.A major unknown in Sunday’s vote is abstention, which could reach a record high, according to analysts, and may complicate polling institutes’ predictions. By noon, only about 25.5 percent had cast their ballots, compared with about 28.5 percent at the same time five years ago.
French law bans all campaigning after Friday at midnight, and candidates worked until the very last moment to encourage their supporters to vote.Le Pen, who is running for the third time for the French presidency, wrote that she is “Macron and his allies have in recent days tried to impress upon their supporters that they should not be overly confident that he will win, and that Le Pen’s efforts to mask her radical ideas could still succeed at the polls.
At a polling station near the Eiffel Tower on Sunday, 57-year-old Eric Tardy said he disagreed with the criticism of Macron. He voted for the incumbent because of his “satisfactory track record” and said he hoped Macron would continue to pursue the reforms he has launched. Tardy, who leans to the center right, said Macron has managed to build “quite a balanced” political platform.
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