The blank or null vote came first, with 37.65% of the 215,292 votes cast, during the consultation carried out by Jean-Luc Mélenchon with his supporters for the second round of the presidential election, his site announced on Sunday. official.

The Macron vote comes next with 33.4% of the vote, ahead of abstention with nearly 29%.

The Le Pen vote was not proposed, by virtue of the instructions given by the LFI candidate on the evening of the first round: "You must not give a vote to Mrs. Le Pen".

The announcement of the results on the melenchon2022.fr site is preceded by the following clarification: “The result of this consultation is not an instruction given to anyone.

It indicates what are the appreciations of the 215,292 people who participated.

Everyone will conclude and vote in conscience, as they see fit.

The consultation of the 310,000 online sponsors of Mélenchon's candidacy ended on Saturday at 8 p.m.

It was preceded by a word from the ex-candidate, who won nearly 22% of the vote on April 10: the second round “will be resolved in defiance of our most fundamental repulsions.

A presidency without moral authority will come out of it, ”confides the tribune.

But, he adds, the two finalists “are not equivalent.

Already a consultation in 2017

"That's why I said and I repeat that not a voice should go to the far-right candidate," writes Jean-Luc Mélenchon.

The candidate explains why he is doing this, while his voters are divided on the second round vote, according to some studies: "Let's not give this duo the gain of opposing us on their subject when we are so strongly united on our projects.

The cohesion of the Union Populaire is our dearest asset.

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He had already consulted his supporters in 2017, when he finished fourth with 19.58% of the vote, with the same exception: "Not a vote on the far right".

The consultation also resulted in a short majority for the blank or null vote (36%), just ahead of the vote for Emmanuel Macron (nearly 35%), just under a third remaining speaking for abstention.

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