The first-round campaign ends this Friday at midnight.
Online media for Emmanuel Macron, land for Marine Le Pen, Valérie Pécresse, Yannick Jadot. The candidates are taking advantage of the last hours of the official campaign for the first round of the presidential election on Friday April 8 to call back voters, hoping to convince the undecided and potential abstainers. After a last salvo of meetings Thursday evening, the campaign ends Friday at midnight in mainland France.
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Public meetings, distribution of leaflets and digital propaganda of the candidates will be prohibited. No interview, poll or estimate of results may be published before the results on Sunday at 8:00 p.m. Thursday afternoon, 69% of the 47.9 million electoral envelopes had been distributed to voters’ mailboxes, according to the Ministry of the Interior.
In Guadeloupe, Guyana, Martinique, Saint-Barthélemy, Saint-Martin, Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon and French Polynesia, where the ballot is brought forward to Saturday, the campaign ended locally Thursday at midnight.
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