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Le Pen looks to have made it through (based on projections).

Marcon looks to have beat her in the first round.

Overall the left did well enough, so should be fine. Crosses fingers

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Curious to know how this compares to previous 1st rounds.

Time to buy €uros I guess.

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mespilus in reply to @hugo7

The execrable le Pen's father also qualified for the 2nd round run-off in 2002:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_presidential_election,
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The most noteworthy thing that I've seen reported is the collapse of the mainstream parties (although this is probably slightly over hyped, as Macron comes from Hollande's team, and Fillon did surprisingly well considering the corruption claims).

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