Emmanuel Macron, Marine Le Pen, Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
The evening of the first round of the 2022 presidential election looks like deja vu.
At first glance only.
In detail, the situation is quite different: the historical parties (The Republicans, the Socialist Party, Europe Ecology The Greens) barely reach 11% of the votes cast.
Marine Le Pen gains two points compared to 2017, even though she was faced with the candidacy of Eric Zemmour who rose to fourth place with 7.05%.
Jean-Luc Mélenchon also progressed by more than two points to 21.95%.
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Cumulatively, the candidates from the extremes represent 58.1% of the votes cast in the first round, i.e. now a majority.
Fifteen years earlier, during the 2007 presidential election, they represented only 21.3% of the votes.
On the far right, the progression has been linear since Marine Le Pen replaced her father as a candidate for the National Front, then for the National Rally.
She gained 7 points between…
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