Le Pen, Macron Progress To Second Round In French Presidential Election: Live Feed

BREAKING: Defeated French conservative Fillon calls on supporters to support centrist Macron against the far-right leader Le Pen.

— The Associated Press (@AP) April 23, 2017

zerohedge.com / by Tyler Durden / Apr 23, 2017 1:33 PM

Update 4:10pm: Le Pen’s lead in the official votes is slipping, and according to Interior Ministry data, now been updated with 50.02% of the total eligible voters, Le Pen’s lead continues to narrow now at 1.71% points from 2.19% in the last update. This is expected given that urban areas are the last to report results, and are less likely to vote for the far-right candidate.

Update: 3:49pm ET: With 50% of Votes Counted, France’s Interior Ministry reports LE PEN AT 24.13%, MACRON AT 22.42%

The latest Interior Ministry preliminary estimates put Marine Le Pen at 24.3%, or roughly 7.5 percentage points better than the 2002 performance that got her father, Jean-Marie Le Pen, into that year’s presidential run-off. This would also be the National Front’s best first-round showing to date.

Meanwhile Melenchon has refused to endorse anyone for the second round for now. According to Citi, Melenchon has more or less conceded and adds that “far-left communist-backed candidate Jean-Luc Melenchon says he will await full results, and says that he trusts his supporters to ‘know what to do in the second round’. He hasn’t quite conceded, in black and white. He refuses to endorse anyone else ‘for now’. He expressed anger that two ‘establishment’ candidates are present in the second round (he considers Le Pen to be a part of the political establishment).”
He remains in fourth place in all polls.

Additionally, France’s largest union, The CFDT, has called up in ts members to vote for Macron in the second round “to beat the National Front.”

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