BREAKING- Election presidentielle (direct): Macron entre 62% et 64% selon les premires estimations

[DemocratSinceBirth]

Ce dimanche a lieu le second tour de l'élection présidentielle française, un scrutin qui va déterminer qui d'Emmanuel Macron (En marche!) ou de Marine Le Pen (Front national) occupera la présidence française pour les cinq prochaines années.

Les principales informations de la journée:

Emmanuel Macron obtient 60% des suffrages exprimés selon plusieurs études
Les alentours et la salle de presse du Louvre - où Emmanuel Macron réunit ses partisans- ont été évacuées à cause d'une alerte de sécurité qui a été rapidement levée
La participation à la mi-journée s’élevait à 28,23%, selon les chiffres officiels du ministère français de l'Intérieur. En 2012, il s'élevait à 30,66% au même moment
Emmanuel Macron, 39 ans, est un ancien banquier d'affaires et ex-ministre de l'Economie du président socialiste sortant François Hollande. Il était arrivé en tête du premier tour, est donné largement favori par les derniers sondages qui le créditent de 61,5 à 63% des voix, contre 37 à 38,5% pour la députée européenne Marine Le Pen, âgée de 48 ans.


https://www.rtbf.be/info/monde/detail_election-presidentielle-francaise-suivez-le-second-tour-en-direct-live?id=9599575

[Sculpin Beauregard]

1. Rough translation: Macron @ 61.5%, with 63% of votes in!

Fuck Putin, fuck Le Pen, fuck Trump, fuck Mercer, and Vive La 🇫🇷 !!!

[DemocratSinceBirth]

3. This is glorious. She's a proxy for trump.

[dalton99a]

2. They're predicting a final turnout of 75%

[AgadorSparticus]

4. Go Macron! I hope he crushes Le Pen like the maggot she & her Russian ties are!

[L. Coyote]

5. Frappons un coup de droite.

[Sculpin Beauregard]

6. C'est bien! Formidable!

[Baitball Blogger]

7. The French are much better at handling despot leaders than we are.

[muriel_volestrangler]

8. That's three and a half hours (or more) before polls close

It's not that anyone has counted any votes yet; the figure for Macron's vote comes from opinion polls:

"According to a source from the French Ministry of the Interior which aggregates the results of several institutes of opinion polling and opinion polls ..."
"Selon une source du Ministère de l'Intérieur français qui agrège les résultats de plusieurs instituts de sondage et d'enquête d'opinion ..."

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

9. That's what I thought it said.

Opinion polls.

Didn't the opinion polls all have Hillary Clinton winning? I, for one, won't rest easy until the votes are actually counted.

[muriel_volestrangler]

10. The margin in the opinion polls have all been around a 20% lead

(which is why this is not saying anything new) so this really isn't comparable to the Clinton-Trump polls that had her winning by a few points (and, after all, she did win the national vote; they got the vote in a few states wrong by a few points).

[BlueMTexpat]

11. The French press is somewhat hamstrung in

its reporting until the polls actually close at 20:00 CET (at least in the cities).

RTBF is from French-speaking Belgium and has a bit more leeway. But its information is usually accurate. It was spot on in the first round. I am keeping my fingers VERY crossed though.

Here is one French source with up-to-the-minute reporting: http://www.rtl.fr/actu/politique/en-direct-resultats-election-presidentielle-2017-macron-le-pen-7788416410

[BlueMTexpat]

12. Le Temps says that four

polling groups are calling the election for Macron! There are still a couple minutes before the polls close in the big cities.

https://www.letemps.ch/monde/2017/05/07/emmanuel-macron-president

It looks as if France dodged the Le Pen bullet. Thank heavens!