(ANSA) - PARIS, APRIL 10 - The participation in the first round of the presidential elections in France at noon is 3 points lower than that recorded in 2017 in the last elections for the Elysée: on a sunny day there was 25.48% of voters who at 12 they had deposited the ballot in the urn.
In 2017 at the same time it was 28.54%, in 2012 28.3%.
Lecifre are from the Ministry of the Interior.
However, participation is 4 points higher than on April 21, 2002, which remains the record negative participation in the vote.
The pollsters had insisted in these days on the risk that the abstention would exceed that of 2002. (ANSA).