Macron and Le Pen qualify for the second round of the French presidential elections
Outgoing French President Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen, leader of the far-right National Rally party, qualified for the second round of the French presidential elections.
Estimates showed Macron topped the results of the first round of the presidential elections, with between 27.6 and 29.7 percent of the vote, and qualified for the second round with his rival Le Pen, who won 23.5 to 24.7% of the votes.
According to estimates, the radical leftist candidate Jean-Luc Melenchon came third with between 19.8 and 20.8% of the vote.
Immediately, the right-wing candidates, the Green Party, the Communist and Socialist parties called in the first round of the French presidential elections to vote for Macron in the second round.
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