As we all know,
Macron won the second round of the
French presidential elections and was confirmed for the second time.
Before him only Charles De Gaulle, who however did not complete the second term, and Francois Mitterrand had won the trust of the French.
A result therefore far from negligible, even if, in the 2nd round, Le Pen gains 2.6 million votes while Macron loses almost 2 million compared to 2017.
If the pressure and involvement of Le Pen on social media during the election campaign was far greater than that of the French President, ANSA and DataMediaHub analyzed the online reactions (social networks, online news, blogs and forums) at a global level to the re-election. by Macron.
From April 20 to the early hours of today April 26, 2.3 million citations for the challenger, by about 225 thousand unique authors, whose contents involved (likes, reactions, comments and shares) 17.5 million people.
For Macron, on the other hand, 5.3 million citations, by more than 362 thousand unique authors, whose contents involved 30.1 million people.
The peak was for Macron, with 362,000 citations between 20:00 and 21:00 on April 24, when the results of the elections were announced based on exit polls and projections based on data on the seats of the province. French, closed one hour earlier.
The sentiment, or the emotions associated with the online verbalizations relating to the two contenders for the role of President of the French Republic, is negative for 30.6% of Le Pen's citations, and for 32.9% of those on Macron.
It is no coincidence that the content that generated the most engagement is, on TikTok, by Hugo Travers, a young French journalist who is very active on social media, where he has hundreds of miles of followers on different platforms, who posted a clip of the final television confrontation between the two. contenders, commenting "Debt of 600 billion: Le Pen accuses, Macron defends himself".
Video that has obtained 4.4 million views, 472 thousand likes, almost 19 thousand comments and just under 3 thousand shares.
Naturally, most of the conversations were in France, and / or in French, although in any case, despite the war in Ukraine, a not negligible share at world level worried the whole world, and in Europe.
In Italy 98 thousand citations for Macron, with all the main political leaders, with the exception of Salvini, who congratulated the President, and 52 thousand for Le Pen.
The "wheel" of terms most associated with online conversations shows what these were for one and the other.
For both, those between the ages of 25 and 34 participated most in online conversations, but it is interesting to note how far from negligible the share of those between the ages of 18 and 14 as regards Macron.
The share of positive sentiment, in the terms previously expressed, is in favor of Macron compared to Le Pen.
The infographic provides the details of what emerges from our analysis.