In a short time: Election samples in France | Israel today

In less than an hour, at 21:00 Israel time (Sunday), the first samples of the results of the second round of elections in France between the current president Emanuel Macron and the far-right woman Marin Le Pen will be published.

According to estimates published before the television samples, the percentage of those with the right to vote who did not exercise their civil right reached about 28%.

Five years ago, the percentage abstaining from voting was about 25%.

The percentage of abstentions in the second round was estimated to be 1.7% higher than in the first round of voting about two weeks ago.

The two finalists, Macron and Le Pen, put a lot of effort into the two weeks leading up to the second round of voting to persuade voters to go to the polls.

Macron explained that this was the way to block the way for the victory of the "extreme right" and Le Pen said that "when the people vote the people win, and only in this way can the representative of the oligarchy and elites be fired," Macron said.

In polls conducted in France last week, Macron won by almost 10 points against its rival.

However, given the fact that in the final phase of the campaign there is a ban on publishing polls, it is not clear what the latest trends are.

Also, the amount of hesitation may change the picture at the last minute.

Either way, media outlets outside France made their own polls at the polls where Macron showed an advantage.

If he wins, Macron will hold his victory event at the Chan de Mars park at the foot of the Eiffel Tower.

Macron sought to hold his victory event in this episode five years ago, but Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo, who represented the Socialist Party in the current presidential race and received less than 2%, refused to allow him to do so.

This time she responded positively to the request of the incumbent president.

Over 1,000 journalists from France and around the world came to cover Macron's victory speech.

The chapter was surrounded by many security forces.

On Election Day, a knife attack at a church in the southern French city of Nice was carried out by a mentally disturbed young man who claims to be a Jew.

Senior officials in the Jewish community in the south of France told Israel Today that they did not have information confirming that the attacker was indeed a Jew.

The young man, an activist in far-right circles who expressed his desire to assassinate President Emanuel Macron on election day but eventually chose to harm the church, entered the church during the first day prayer, stabbed a Polish priest who led the prayer twenty times and seriously injured though not life-threatening.

A nun who tried to stop the attacker and take the knife out of his hand, was lightly injured.

The suspect tried to flee the church after the attack, but was quickly stopped by police forces who arrived at the scene of the attack.

The attacker's father told police that his son had been hospitalized several times in a psychiatric hospital.

The preparations of all the parties for the elections to the National Assembly, the French Parliament, to be held in June will now begin.

Following the previous presidential election, Macron's young party succeeded in gaining a comfortable majority in parliament, backing some of President Macron's reform initiatives.

The parties that were in the outgoing parliament in opposition, especially the populist right and left, will seek to shape the next parliament in line with the new political landscape, reflected in the presidential election results: a significant strengthening of the far-left 'Rebel France' by France The electorate and left-wing voters in general need to strengthen his party in a way that will force the president to appoint him the next prime minister.

The Jewish candidate, journalist Arik Zamor, who came in fourth place in the first round with only 7%, called for the unification of Le Pen's "national convention", his party, the conservatives who did not join Macron and another days party to form a large national right-wing bloc in parliament.

Le Pen's entourage reacted with great skepticism to this proposal, mainly for fear that some political closeness with Zamor would hurt Le Pen's chances of being elected president.

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