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1:33 p.m. : At polling station number 67 in the 19th arrondissement of Paris, voters from this popular district are voting for the first round of the presidential election. Here is the queue around noon in front of the elementary school on rue de Tanger. “It hasn’t been empty for 11 hours”explains an assessor to our colleague, the photographer Pierre Morel.
(PIERRE MOREL / FRANCEINFO)
1:34 p.m. : And twelve candidates out of twelve. Outgoing President Emmanuel Macron, in turn, slipped his ballot into the ballot box. He was in a polling station in Le Touquet (Pas-de-Calais).
(THIBAULT CAMUS VIA AFP)
12:22 p.m. : The five departments with the most votes at noon are Saône-et-Loire (39.05%), Gers (37.71%), Ardèche (35.55%), Dordogne (34.63% ) and Vaucluse (32.64%). The five departments which mobilized the least are Seine-Saint-Denis (14.71%), Paris (15.34%), Val-d’Oise (18.82%), Essonne (18, 89%) and Hauts-de-Seine (19.13%).
12:17 p.m. : Hello @EuLax. The participation rate in the Haute-Corse department reached 25.07% at noon, against 28.99% in 2017 at the same time, according to the prefecture. It is 25.86% in Corse-du-Sud.
12:16 p.m. : Do we have abstention in Corsica?
12:21 p.m. : Here are the main news headlines :
• Participation in the first round of the presidential election stood at 25.48% at noon, down three points compared to 2017 (28.54%) at the same time.
• Some 48.7 million voters are called to the first round of the presidential election. Eleven of the 12 candidates have already slipped their ballot into the ballot box.
Ukraine has expressed its readiness to deliver a “great battle” in the east of its territory, a priority target for Moscow, where the evacuation of civilians continues in fear of an imminent offensive.
EU foreign ministers will discuss a sixth package of sanctions against Moscow tomorrow in Luxembourg.
Monegasque Charles Leclerc (Ferrari) has won the Australian Grand Prix, in the third round of the Formula 1 world championship.
12:04 : The participation rate in the first round of the presidential election reached 25.48% at noon, according to official figures communicated by the Ministry of the Interior. For comparison, in 2017, the turnout in the first round at midday was 28.54%. It was 21.4% in 2002 at the same time (a historic low).
12:01 : Turnout in the first round stands at 25.48% at noon, down three points from 2017
11:59 : To encourage the French to go and vote during the first round of the presidential election, some voters are doubling their imagination and proposals, such as transporting certain people to the polling stations. Small tour of France of initiatives.
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11:54 : The LR candidate, Valérie Pécresse, meanwhile, voted in Vélizy-Villacoublay (Yvelines).
(ALAIN JOCARD / AFP)
12:12 p.m. : The candidate of Debout la France!, Nicolas Dupont-Aignan, went to his stronghold of Yerres (Essonne) to vote. Most of the candidates have voted, we are almost there!
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11:45 a.m. : The environmental candidate Yannick Jadot voted in a Parisian polling station.
(STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN / AFP)
1:35 p.m. : Also voted. The candidate Jean Lassalle (Let’s resist!) went to the polling station in Lourdios-Ichère (Pyrénées-Atlantiques).
(LAURENT FERRIERE / HANS LUCAS VIA AFP)
11:37 : Marine Le Pen voted a little before 11:30 am, for the first round of the presidential election. The National Rally candidate went to a polling station in Hénin-Beaumont (Pas-de-Calais).
(DENIS CHARLET / AFP)
11:42 : The Lutte Ouvrière candidate, Nathalie Arthaud, has just slipped her ballot into the ballot box in Pantin (Seine-Saint-Denis).
(THOMAS SAMSON / AFP)
11:31 a.m. : “It is an element of political communication tvery important. We let it be seen that these candidates are exercising their civic rights. It is also to say that the day will be very long: ‘We slipped our ballot into the ballot box, it is up to the other French people to do the same’. But that doesn’t have much of an impact on voters. Few French people are waiting for these images [de ces candidats] to do the same.”
Martin Foucault, professor at Sciences-Po and director of Cevipof, reacts on franceinfo to these morning images of candidates in the polling stations.
11:59 : The Reconquête! candidate, Eric Zemmour, votes in turn. It is located in the 8th arrondissement of Paris.
(BERTRAND GUAY / AFP)
11:36 : It’s Fabien Roussel’s turn to vote. The communist candidate slipped his ballot into the ballot box in Saint-Amand-les-Eaux (North).
(FRANCOIS LO PRESTI / AFP)
11:00 : LFI candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon voted at the Dames kindergarten to vote in Marseille (Bouches-du-Rhône), in the second arrondissement.
(CHRISTOPHE SIMON / AFP)
10:41 a.m. : Hello @Lolo. Two independence movements, Corsica Libera and Core in Fronte, had called for a boycott of the election two days ago, at a press conference. Our colleagues from France 3 Corse ViaStella also broadcast an image electoral billboards covered with photos of Yvan Colonna, an independence activist who died after an attack on the central house in Arles.
(STEPHANE PAOLI / FRANCE TELEVISIONS)
10:59 : Hello franceinfo. Did the Corsican separatists plan to disrupt the ballot or simply call for a boycott?
10:26 : François Hollande, former President of the Republic, has just arrived at his polling station in Tulle (Corrèze).
10:15 a.m. : 🗳 #Électionpresidentielle |📅 Sunday April 10, 2022 – 1st round – Presidential election 2022: 🛑 The turnout in Reunion for the 1st round of the election is estimated at 20.65% at 12:00 p.m.
10:14 a.m. : The participation rate in Reunion is estimated at 20.65% at noon, announces the prefecture. It is up compared to 2017 (18.94%).
09:54 : The Ministry of the Interior will give at noon the first figures in France concerning the participation rate. In the meantime, here are some snapshots in the Rhône, respectively in Lyon and Cours-la-Ville.
(JEFF PACHOUD / AFP)
(ADRIEN FILLON / HANS LUCAS VIA AFP)
09:42 : In the Alpes-Maritimes, a taxi company has made three of its five vehicles available to voters, in particular elderly or isolated people. This little boost is done on a voluntary basis, explains a driver at France 3 Provence-Alpes-Cote d’Azur. A similar operation had already been organized in 2017.
(F. CERULLI / FRANCE TELEVISIONS)
10:25 a.m. : Prime Minister Jean Castex votes in Prades (Pyrénées-Orientales), a town of which he was mayor between 2008 and 2020 (since his appointment as Prime Minister, the first deputy has acted as interim).
(RAYMOND ROIG / AFP)
09:18 : Members of the polling stations, ballot box, counting… All elections are subject to strict rules to avoid possible fraud. here are the main measures applied in the polling station, in order to guarantee the sincerity and conformity of the vote. The ballot box, for example, must be transparent, with an opening and two locks.
09:35 : Nicolas Sarkozy, former President of the Republic, voted in the 16th arrondissement of Paris. Former Prime Minister Edouard Philippe voted in Le Havre (Seine-Maritime).
(JULIAN DE ROSA / AFP)
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09:19 : PS candidate Anne Hidalgo has just voted in the 15th arrondissement of Paris.
(THOMAS COEX / AFP)
10:53 : The Ministry of the Interior will give at noon the first figures in France concerning the participation rate. In French Polynesia, where the vote was brought forward to take into account the time difference, this rate stood at 23.78%, at 5 p.m. local time (5 a.m. in Paris), against 43.97% at the same time in the first round. in 2017. In New Caledonia, participation peaked at noon (3 a.m. in Paris) at 17.59%, compared to 19.86% five years ago.
08:15 : The Sunday newspaper obviously devotes its front page to the first round of the presidential election. The weekly mentions two ingredients in particular: “abstention and indecision”.
08:09 : Voted in Villenave-d’Ornon in the Bordeaux suburbs! May the best win 👍
08:03 : #Présidentielle2022 I It’s 8 a.m., the polling stations are open until 7 p.m. or even 8 p.m. in the biggest cities. Let’s vote! 
08:02 : Polling stations open for the first round of the presidential election. Follow the election day on franceinfo.
10:53 : It’s 8 o ‘clock. here are the main news headlines :
• The polling stations have just opened in France, shortly after the start of the ballot in Overseas France and for French nationals living abroad. Some 48.7 million voters are called to the first round of the presidential election.
Ukraine has expressed its readiness to deliver a “great battle” in the east of its territory, a priority target for Moscow, where the evacuation of civilians continues in fear of an imminent offensive.
Several tens of thousands of people took part yesterday afternoon in marches for the climate, in several major cities in France.
Rennes returns as dolphin of PSG after his victory snatched from Reims (3-2) and relegates OM to the third step of the podium. The club of the capital, him, made short work of Clermont in the evening (6-1).