This electoral colleges France They opened their doors at 08:00 this morning to celebrate their anniversary. first round presidential election.
Most schools will close at 19:00, except in major cities such as Paris, Marseille, Bordeaux, Nantes, Toulouse or Nice, whose closures are delayed until 8pm.
vote On French soil this Saturday had already begun overseas in the Americas and the South Pacific, particularly in Saint Pierre and Miquelon, in eastern Canada, in French Guiana, Martinique and French Polynesia.
The first round of the presidential election faces Emmanuel Macron, the current tenant of the Elysee, and a roster of more than a dozen candidates.
Three candidates on the right of the political spectrum stand out in this group —Deniz Le Pen (National Grouping), Eric Zemmour (Reconquest) and Valérie Pecresse (Republicans)– and to a lesser extent, a leftist–Jean-Luc Melenchon (submissive France)–.
Polls show the current president as the favourite, but the French electoral system does not allow anything to be taken for granted. Apart from surprises, Macron will win in the first roundIt is not yet clear who will accompany him on the ballot two weeks later, on April 24, however, as consolidated voting intentions are even above 25 percent.
Le Pen, who succeeded in the long-awaited face-to-face meeting with Macron in the 2017 elections, is ‘a priori’ the best positioned candidate.