Seats closed in Guadeloupe and Martinique, Melenchon over 50%

(ANSA) - ROME, APRIL 10 - The candidate of France Insoumis to the French presidential elections, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, obtained more than 50% of the votes in the overseas departments of Guadeloupe and Martinique where the polling stations are already closed and the turnout has stopped respectively at 42.67% and 44.76%.

This was reported by the Belgian media.

    In Guadeloupe, in particular, the candidate of the radical left won over 56% of the votes.

Behind him, far-right candidate Marine Le Pen with 17.92%, third is President Emmanuel Macron with 13.43% of the votes.

Also in Martinique Mélenchon reaches 56.16%.

    In Saint-Barthélemy, on the other hand, another island in the French Antilles, Macron takes the lead with 23.8% of the votes, chased by Le Pen (22.4%), third is the far-right polemicist Eric Zemmour with 17.7% .

Here the turnout has just exceeded 51%.

(HANDLE).