France election 2022 live: Will Le Pen's revenge on Macron follow on Sunday?
Created: 04/23/2022Updated: 04/23/2022, 20:01
Before their TV duel in the 2017 French elections: Marine Le Pen (left) and Emmanuel Macron © Eric Feferberg/AFP
President Emmanuel Macron will face Marine Le Pen in the run-off election on Sunday - for the second time.
The news ticker for the French elections in 2022.
France election 2022
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runoff election on April 24
(Sunday).
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French President .
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Paris/Munich – final sprint in the French presidential elections* for President Emmanuel Macron* and his right-wing populist challenger Marine Le Pen*.
Runoff election is on Sunday.
A poll saw Macron as the winner of the TV duel with Le Pen on April 20.
The Le Pen family has been a constant in the French presidential election for almost half a century.
For the eighth time since 1974 a member has stood as a candidate.
And it's the third time that a Le Pen has made it into the runoff.
The gap to the other candidate has never been smaller than this year.
France election 2022 live: Macron against Le Pen – first results up to date
When she ran for the first time in 2012, Le Pen got 17.9 percent.
In 2017 she managed to get into the runoff election - in which she met the then 39-year-old promoted Macron.
In the TV duel at the time
(see photo above)
, Macron let her run out several times, which also damaged her reputation among her supporters.
Macron got 66 percent of the votes cast five years ago.
Le Pen had now largely left classic right-wing issues such as immigration and internal security to another candidate in the 2022 France election *: The right-wing extremist political newcomer Eric Zemmour - on whose votes she can now count in the runoff.
In the election campaign, Le Pen relied on being close to the people and the financial worries of the French were less aggressive than in 2017.
However, your program still contains numerous anti-foreign and anti-European projects.
Le Pen is also said to be close to Russia's ruler Vladimir Putin.
(AFP/dpa/frs)
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