LE TOUQUET-PARIS-PLAGE, FRANCE - APRIL 24: Emmanuel Macron salutes voters as he leaves his house with Brigitte Macron to go vote on April 24, 2022 in Le Touquet-Paris-Plage, France.
Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen were both qualified on Sunday Apri PARIS - French polling agencies are projecting that centrist President Emmanuel Macron will win France’s presidential runoff Sunday, beating far-right rival Marine Le Pen in a tight race that was overshadowed by the war in Ukraine and saw a surge in French support for extremist ideas.If the projections are borne out by official results, Macron would be the first French president in 20 years to win a second term, since Jacques Chirac in 2002.
But he would face a divided nation and a battle to keep his parliamentary majority in legislative elections in June.Five years ago, Macron won a sweeping victory to become France’s youngest president at 39.
The margin is expected to be way smaller this time: Polling agencies Opinionway, Harris and Ifop projected that Macron would win between 57% and 58.5% percent of the vote, with Le Pen getting between 41.5% and 43%.THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE.