THE QUESTION.
Unsurprisingly, Emmanuel Macron easily qualified for the second round of the presidential election on Sunday.
With 9,560,579 votes in his favor (27.60% of the vote), the outgoing president was ahead of Marine Le Pen, who for her part collected 8,109,802 votes (23.41% of the vote).
A comfortable lead and above all, a score higher than that of 2017, where the candidate En Marche received 8,656,346 votes (24.01% of the vote).
As soon as the results were announced, his supporters followed one another on television sets, to praise this progress.
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Monday morning, on BFMTV, the president of the LREM group in the National Assembly, Christophe Castaner, for example, welcomed that “
the French [have] wished to grant even stronger dynamics to Macron than that granted five years ago.
".
But is this sharp increase really a sign of a better trend for Emmanuel Macron?
Shouldn't we look a little further than the numbers alone to analyze...
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