{"id":34531,"date":"2022-04-10T10:21:58","date_gmt":"2022-04-10T10:21:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=34531"},"modified":"2022-04-10T10:22:02","modified_gmt":"2022-04-10T10:22:02","slug":"the-first-round-of-the-presidential-election-has-begun-in-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=34531","title":{"rendered":"The first round of the presidential election has begun in France"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The first round of the presidential election has started in France today.\u00a0The main confrontation, according to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/europe\/macron-faces-tough-fight-france-votes-sunday-2022-04-10\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Reuters<\/a>\u00a0, will take place between incumbent President Emanuel Macron and the far-right candidate Marin Le Pen\u00a0,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>KYIV.\u00a0UkraineGate , 1p , April , 2022 | International News .\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Details<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Voting began at 8 a.m. local time and will end at 6:00 p.m., when the first exit poll data will be released.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to opinion polls, Macron should win an &#8220;easy victory&#8221; thanks to active diplomacy towards Ukraine, a strong economic recovery and the weakness of the fragmented opposition.&nbsp;However, the late start of the election campaign and the plan to raise the retirement age undermined the president&#8217;s ratings, along with a sharp rise in inflation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meanwhile, the anti-immigration, Eurosceptic far-right Le Pen has been campaigning confidently, emphasizing the cost of living.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If Macron and Le Pen run in the second round together, the incumbent will face a problem: polls show that left-wing voters will not vote for Macron in the second round just to prevent a far-right candidate from coming to power.&nbsp;So Macron will have to convince them to vote for themselves in the second round.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sunday&#8217;s vote is set to show who will be elected by a majority of the undecided French and whether Le Pen will be able to surpass public opinion polls and take first place in the first round.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Let&#8217;s add<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to opinion polls by Ipsos Sopra Steria Cevipof, Macron\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.unn.com.ua\/uk\/news\/1971271-vibori-prezidenta-frantsiyi-makron-peremagaye-v-opituvannyakh-na-tli-viyni-v-ukrayini-ale-le-pen-ukriplyuye-pozitsiyi\">will win<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0Marin Le Pen in the country&#8217;s presidential election, although Le Pen&#8217;s position has been strengthening in recent weeks.<br><br>Source:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.unn.com.ua\/\">Ukrgate<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first round of the presidential election has started in France today.\u00a0The main confrontation, according to\u00a0Reuters\u00a0, will take place between incumbent President Emanuel Macron and the far-right candidate Marin Le Pen\u00a0, KYIV.\u00a0UkraineGate , 1p , April , 2022 | International News .\u00a0 Details Voting began at 8 a.m. local time and will end at 6:00 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":34537,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[431,1854],"class_list":["post-34531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-international-news","tag-france","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34531"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34538,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34531\/revisions\/34538"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/34537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}