Outgoing President Emmanuel Macron came out on top in the first round of the 2022 presidential election with 28.1% of the vote, according to Ipsos-Sopra Steria estimates for France Télévisions for France Télévisions. Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen respectively received 28.1% and 23.3% of the votes. Shortly after the estimates were announced, right-wing candidates, environmentalists, communists and socialists called to vote Emmanuel Macron against Marine Le Pen.
Anne Hidalgo
Socialist party candidate Anne Hidalgo called on Sunday to vote “against the far right of Marine Le Pen” in the second round of the presidential election on April 24, after a historic low for the PS at 1.9%. “So that France does not fall into hatred of all against all, I call on you with seriousness to vote on April 24 against the extreme right of Marine Le Pen by using the Emmanuel Macron ballot paper”, a-t- she said from her campaign HQ.
Valerie Pécresse
Valérie Pécresse will vote “in conscience” for Emmanuel Macron. “I am deeply worried about the future of our country”, launched Valérie Pécresse, believing that “the far right is not far from winning”. “I had to fight on two fronts, against the outgoing president and against extremes. Despite the passion and quality of my program, I did not succeed. The reflex of the useful vote worked at full capacity. I take full responsibility for my part in this defeat. “, released Valérie Pécresse immediately after the publication of the estimates.
For his part, LR deputy Eric Ciotti refused on Sunday evening to give voting instructions for the second round, believing that he did not “recognize (did) not” in the candidacy of Emmanuel Macron. “I do not recognize myself in his policy, I will not support him,” said Eric Ciotti on TF1 after the screenings of the first round which give the outgoing president ahead of Marine Le Pen (National Rally). He pointed out that the campaign of his party’s candidate, Valérie Pécresse, had failed.
Jean-Luc Melenchon
“We must not give a single voice to Ms. Le Pen”, hammered several Jean-Luc Mélenchon around 8:45 p.m., speaking at his HQ. “Not a voice should go to the far right because the people have nothing to gain from it”, declared on the set of France 2 the LFI deputy from the North Adrien Quatennens. “The far-right vote will not be an option” in this consultation, he added. “The country is in three blocks and therefore the political crisis is absolutely not resolved”, he further specified, considering that there is “no political majority for the application of the Macron program”.
Fabien Roussel
PCF presidential candidate Fabien Roussel called on Sunday evening to “beat the far right” and Marine Le Pen, by voting in the second round for outgoing President Emmanuel Macron, who must “give up his senseless reforms”. “I call this evening to beat the far right, to put it in check, using the only bulletin at our disposal”, he declared from his HQ, however asking the candidate Emmanuel Macron to “say that ‘he heard the message’ sent by the French.
Yannick Jadot
From his HQ, around 8:20 p.m., Yannick Jadot (EELV) called for voting for Emmanuel Macron to “block the far right by depositing an Emmanuel Macron ballot in the ballot box” against Marine Le Pen in the second round. “Our vote is not worth guarantee” for the outgoing president, who must now “create the conditions for the rally to defeat the far right”, added the environmental candidate from his Parisian HQ.
“Let no one minimize the fundamental threat posed by the far right,” said Yannick Jadot. “Ecology will be absent from the second round, it cannot be from the five-year term. It will be necessary well and quickly, very quickly, during the legislative elections, to look and finally see the situation in the face and to act, ”he added.
The candidate also called for providing EELV with “financial support to continue these fights”, calling for donations for his party, which under 5% would not reimburse its campaign expenses.
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