Macron and Le Pen qualify for French presidential run-off, Mélenchon close third
www.lemonde.fr
Incumbent president leads with 27.60% of the votes, according to Interior Ministry's provisional results, with 97% of the votes counted. The far-right candidate is at 23.41% and leftist candidate 21.95%.
    •  nachtigall   ( @nachtigall@feddit.de ) OP
      1•2 years ago

      Thanks for the update on the numbers! Apparantly the article remained unchanged from the first results at ~20:00.

      With those numbers it is actually quite close for Mélenchon (still about 800k votes though). Shame!

      •  southerntofu   ( @southerntofu@lemmy.ml ) 
        3•2 years ago

        Well it’s a shame because now the debate for the 2nd round will be as stupid as ever. At least if Mélenchon got here we may have envisioned to have a talk about capitalism and feminism and deep racism in the heart of our society.

        Buuuuuuuut to see the positive side of the argument, at least we won’t have to argue against a tyrannical old man in a suit (who used to be from Parti Socialiste and is still an unashamed soc-dem who does not support revolutionary movements) and his hordes of middle-class bobos who get triggered any time you make a political critique that’s not aimed at a right-wing party.

        So i guess we’ve got that going for us? :-/