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1:21 p.m. : Emmanuel Macron and his wife voted a few minutes ago in Le Touquet (Pas-de-Calais). The opponent of the LREM candidate, Marine Le Pen, has for its part voted in the morning at Hénin-Beaumont (Pas-de-Calais).
1:07 p.m. : Eric Zemmour in turn voted in the 8th arrondissement of Paris. The president of Reconquest!, who came fourth in the first round, called for a vote for Marine Le Pen after his defeat.
(STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN / AFP)
12:36 p.m. : And here is the right map and the right graph again! The five departments with the highest attendance at midday are Gers, Jura, Ain, Landes and Saône-et-Loire. Conversely, the five territories where the participation rate is the lowest are Seine-Saint-Denis, Paris, Val-d’Oise, Val-de-Marne and Haute-Corse.
(FRANCEINFO)
12:43 p.m. : We are having a slight problem with the visualization of participation figures by department. I therefore deleted the map and the infographic that I had communicated here, while waiting for everything to be resolved. My apologies to you 🙂
12:16 p.m. : It’s past noon, we’re making a new update on the news:
The participation rate in the second round of the presidential election was 26.41% at noon, according to the Interior Ministry, one point more than in the first round. Follow our special edition and our direct.
A Catholic priest and nun were injured by several stab wounds in the church of Saint-Pierre d’Arène, in Nice (Alpes-Maritimes), by a man “imbalance” who was then arrested, France Télévisions learned from a police source. Their vital prognosis is not engaged. The terrorist track is not considered.
The heads of diplomacy and defense of the United States are expected in kyiv, the day of Orthodox Easter, to discuss arms deliveries to Ukraine. France has also announced that it will deliver Milan anti-tank missiles and Caesar guns.
12:05 : This is one point more than in the first round at the same time (25.48%). On the other hand, it is almost two points less than in the second round of the presidential election of 2017, still at noon (28.23%).
12:01 : The participation rate in the second round of the presidential election stands at 26.41% at noon, according to the Interior Ministry.
11:29 : The candidate of the National Rally, Marine Le Pen, has just voted in Hénin-Beaumont (Pas-de-Calais), in the department where she is elected deputy. She will then return to Paris, her election evening being scheduled at the Pavillon d’Armenonville, in the 16th arrondissement of the capital. Emmanuel Macron should for his part vote within a quarter of an hour in Le Touquet.
10:27 : Did you know ? The two finalists in the presidential election, Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen, both vote in the same department: Pas-de-Calais. The president-candidate is expected at Le Touquet Paris Plage around 11:30 a.m., while his opponent should vote around 11 a.m. in Hénin-Beaumont.
10:25 a.m. : The French in China have started to vote in the second round of the presidential election, but those in Shanghai are again deprived of the ballot because of the quarantine of the Chinese economic capital. French expatriates remain confined to their homes, like most of the 25 million inhabitants of the megalopolis since the beginning of the month and with no prospect of deconfinement.
10:05 a.m. : Our special correspondent Miren Garaicoechea is in Rennes (Ille-et-Vilaine), at the voting center of the Cité internationale Paul Ricoeur, where ten voting booths have been installed for 8 hours. “It’s much calmer than in the first round. At 9 a.m., we were invadednotes Christel, who works in Rennes metropolis and welcomes voters. Tails like April 10, I hadn’t seen one in ten years.” 
(QUENTIN VERNAULT / HANS LUCAS)
09:33 : Hello, these are estimates made by institutes from the counts of several polling stations which close at 7 p.m. For Ipsos-Sopra Steria, whose estimate is used by France Télévisions, the results from the first 200 ballots from each bureau used and the final count from these bureaus are transmitted. An algorithm based in particular on the previous results then takes care of producing a national estimate, in order to smooth the electoral specificities of the polling stations.
09:20 : Hello and good luck for this busy day! Could you explain to us how the estimate that will be given at 8 p.m. tonight is made? cordially
09:14 : It is now the turn of the Republican candidate, Valérie Pécresse, also defeated in the first round, to vote in Vélizy-Villacoublay (Yvelines).
09:08 : The socialist presidential candidate, defeated in the first round, Anne Hidalgo, has just voted in the 15th arrondissement of Paris.
10:15 a.m. : Some overseas territories and French people living abroad voted yesterday. In Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon, participation was 57%, against 54.96% in the first round. In New Caledonia, where abstention had reached a record rate in the first round (66.65%), the second round is announced under the same auspices (18.17% participation at noon against 17.59% on 10 April at the same time).
10:16 a.m. : The polling stations opened a few minutes ago in mainland France for the second round, where some 48.7 million voters are called to the polls. Polling stations remain open until 7 p.m., and 8 p.m. in major cities. The Ministry of the Interior will give at noon the first figures concerning the participation rate, feared to be down.
08:07 : And here is the first information of the morning:
The French are called to the polls to elect their next president and choose, as in 2017, between Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen. Follow our special edition and our direct.
The heads of diplomacy and defense of the United States are expected in kyiv, the day of Orthodox Easter, to discuss arms deliveries to Ukraine. France has also announced that it will deliver Milan anti-tank missiles and Caesar guns.
• PSG won their tenth French championship titleSaint-Etienne’s record equaled, top performance at the end of a very small match (1-1 against Lens, who finished the match in numerical inferiority).
• The Belgian singer Arno, to whom we owe in particular whore whore Where girls by the sea died yesterday at the age of 72. He had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2019.