The turnout in the second round of the French presidential election today was 63.23%[/B] at 17.00 p.m. (18.00 Cyprus time) according to figures released by the Interior Ministry.
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In the previous election, in 2017, the turnout at the same time was 65.30%. The figures confirm the trend predicted by the polls, namely that this year the voter turnout will be lower.
Voting started at 8am local time and will end at 8pm local time (21.00 Cyprus time), when the first results are expected.
At the same time, Emmanuel Macron's staff is already preparing the stage for his speech on Sunday evening, where from the Champ-de-Mars he will either celebrate his re-election, breaking a 20-year curse, as no other president has been elected since 2002 and Jacques Chirac, or announce, in a scenario that currently seems unlikely, his defeat.
Even though Le Pen is by no means the favourite, as the latest polls show her trailing Emmanuel Macron by as much as ten points, she has prepared a spectacular fiesta in case she manages to finish first in the election race. According to the plan, 13 buses used during her election campaign will "parade" from the Bois de Boulogne, stopping at symbolic sites in Paris such as the Arc de Triomphe, Place de la Concorde but also Place de la Bastille and Place de la République.
However, even if Emmanuel Macron manages to defeat Marine Le Pen once again, the political situation in France will remain uncertain, at least until the legislative elections on 12 and 19 June. And as is already being said in Paris, if politicians and journalists "loved" the presidential election derby, they will "love" the parliamentary one.
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