We are all on tenterhooks here as we await the announcement on who will make it to the second round. Jean-Claude Juncker, European Commission president, told Macron: “I am delighted that the ideas you defended of a strong and progressive Europe, which protects all its citizens, will be those that you will carry into your presidency.” German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who faces re-election in September and could face tantamount Russian endeavors, acquires a pro-European ally in Macron. 2001-213 of 8 March 2001 regulating implementation of the Act of 6 November 1962 on the election of the French President by universal suffrage; Decree No. Change ), You are commenting using your Facebook account. Change ), You are commenting using your Google account. Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 First published on Sun 23 Apr 2017 18.15 BST. Yes, Vidya, after months of rancorous campaigning, we will soon finally get to hear from the only people who matter: French voters. I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby publish it under the following license: (SVG file, nominally 1,000 × 960 pixels, file size: 13.34 MB), 2017 French presidential election - First round - Majority vote (Metropolitan France, communes).svg, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0, élection présidentielle française de 2017, Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International, User:Magog the Ogre/Political maps/2017 April 21-30, Élection présidentielle française de 2017, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:2017_French_presidential_election_-_First_round_-_Majority_vote_(Metropolitan_France,_communes).svg&oldid=251956525, Maps of French presidential election (2017), Nicolas Dupont-Aignan in French presidential election (2017), Marine Le Pen in French presidential election (2017), Maps of Emmanuel Macron in 2017 French presidential election, Benoît Hamon in French presidential election (2017), Philippe Poutou in French presidential election (2017), Jean Lassalle in French presidential election (2017), Jean-Luc Mélenchon in French presidential election (2017), François Asselineau in French presidential election (2017), François Fillon in French presidential election (2017), Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike missing SDC copyright status, Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International missing SDC copyright license, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. Based on the pre-blackout opinion polls in the past few weeks, you're looking at a combined showing of at least 40 percent for two candidates who avowedly oppose many of the EU's principles.
Here's the young-ish crowd at frontrunner Emmanuel Macron's Parisian venue: Helene Fouquet sends this from Marine Le Pen's election night party -- clearly the candidate's confident enough to call a rally for May 1. The French-German 10-year yield spread reached the widest since February two weeks before the vote, yet banks including Goldman Sachs and Credit Suisse aren't too concerned about the markets. The cost of one-month options to buy the euro against the dollar has plunged, relative to contracts for selling, to the lowest level since the height of Europe’s sovereign-debt crisis in 2011. If you're just joining us right now, here's where we're at: French PM Cazeneuve Endorses Macron for 2nd Round: AFP. Traders are taking no chance with French election risk.