France 2022 elections: Macron wins the presidential elections by 58% compared to 41% for Le Pen, according to vote estimates

For the second time, France has once again denied power to the extreme right.

At the moment, with the first votes counted, Emmanuel Macron manages to prevail over Marine Le Pen

in an appointment that had the country and Europe on edge.

In a very tight election, according to the first vote estimates published after the closure of the schools by the Ipsos institute, the candidate for re-election would have reached 58% of the support, compared to 41% for his rival, the far-right Le Pen.

Ifop gives you a margin of 57%, compared to 43% for her.

Abstention has been a record, 28%, which means that one in three voters has stayed at home.

In France there are no exit polls,

instead, the vote estimates collected in the schools of the small cities, which close earlier, at six in the afternoon, are published.

Until eight o'clock it is forbidden to publish polls.

In the first round, Macron managed to beat Le Pen with 27.8%, compared to her 23.1% support.

If the data is confirmed, the Frenchman (Amiens, 44)

in this tight duel and go down in history, not only as the youngest president of the Fifth Republic (when he won in 2017 he was 39 years old), but as one of the few who has managed to be re-elected.

His name will appear in the history books along with those of Charles de Gaulle, François Mitterrand or Jacques Chirac.

Although he has overtaken Le Pen again, no one is unaware that it is

because the result, in the absence of knowing how the scrutiny progresses, is tighter than in the 2017 elections, when they already faced each other, and this, together with the low turnout, reveals society's discontent, boredom and that many voters do not feel identified with her politics, but have voted for her to curb the far-right.

This is revealed by the high abstention rate, 28

%, higher than in the first round and the highest in half a century in a second round of presidential elections, reveals the detachment of the French from politics.

The party has already started on the Champ de Mars,

the idyllic setting with the Eiffel Tower in the background where Macron will come out to deliver his speech in a while.

It will also be where militants celebrate the president's victory.

Despite this, they continue to resist leaving France in the hands of the extreme right.

In the absence of progress in the scrutiny,

again , which goes out to vote only to prevent Le Pen from winning.

It already happened in 2002, when his father, Jean Marie Le Pen, managed to eliminate the socialist Lionel Jospin in the first electoral round.

The country has this moment engraved on fire and in the last three electoral appointments to which Le Pen has appeared, his adversary has appealed to this mobilization against the extreme right.

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