Experts say the latest trends showed a strong and rapid rise in the number of voters in favor of Le Pen, while those of Macron were falling.
The French president is up against perennial right-wing candidate Marine Le Pen in a final round of voting on April 24th.PARIS -- French President Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen, a far-right presidential candidate, took the top two spots in the first round of the presidential elections on Sunday, according to preliminary results.
"The most important concern expressed by the French voters is the purchasing power and and the social issues in general," Wallard said."And the fact is Marine Le Pen was early on in the campaign well-positioned on this topic ... and the fact is that we have seen as a consequence of the current international crisis a surge in the price of oil and gas and the impact on inflation.
Macron achieved high scores in the first 15 days of the war in Ukraine, according to Chiche, a major boost for the president seeking reelection. A senatorial commission of inquiry into the government's frequent and expensive payments to those firms later unveiled that one of them, McKinsey & Company, did not pay taxes in France between 2011 and 2020, despite the large sums received. The National Financial Prosecutor's Office opened a preliminary investigation on April 6 for aggravated money laundering of tax evasion.
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