The fight for presidency is well and truely on in France
Current French President Emmanuel Macron will go head to head with far-right rival Marine Le Pen as the French elections get underway.
The two are getting set for a run-off which has been locked in for April 24.
Projections after a first-round voting was in favour of Macron. With 96 per cent of votes counted, Mr Macron won 27.4 per cent in the first round, with Ms Le Pen at 24 per cent.
“Make no mistake, nothing is decided,”
mr macron told supporters.
In the end, he won a convincing first-round victory, but opinion polls suggest the run-off could be much closer.
Rival, Le Pen called on every non-Macron voter to join her and “put France back in order”.
The results set up a duel between Macron who is an economic liberal with a globalist outlook and Le Pen, who has become known to be a deeply euro-sceptic economic nationalist who, until the Ukraine war, was an open admirer of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
