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ANALYSIS. During this first round which qualified Macron and Le Pen, the useful vote played out, to the detriment of the old government parties, which were destroyed.
Nathalie Schuck
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Emmanuel Macron has therefore succeeded in his bet: installing the extremes as the only alternative to La République en Marche. At the end of the first round of the presidential election which this Sunday saw the Head of State take the lead with some 28% of the vote ahead of Marine Le Pen at around 23%, followed by Jean-Luc Mélenchon (around 21.5%), the political landscape finds itself fractured into three camps: LREM, the National Rally and La France insoumise.
Gone is the old adage that “in the first round, we choose and in the second round, we eliminate”, everything happens as if the useful vote had fully played in favor of these three political parties. To the detriment of the parties long said to be in government, the famous “old world”, the PS, the Greens and the Republicans, with historic scores…
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