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Added on the 12/06/2022 20:21:45 - Copyright : France 24 EN
Jean-Luc Mélenchon, candidate for the hard-left La France Insoumise party, casts his ballot in the port city of Marseille during the first round of France's presidential elections. Polls opened in mainland France at 0600 GMT after an unusual campaign overshadowed by Russia's invasion of Ukraine that analysts warned could lead to unpredictable outcomes with turnout a major factor. IMAGES
The president of the Horizons group Édouard Philippe "does not believe at all that it is possible" that the relative majority build "a government agreement with the far right or with the far left". Emmanuel Macron is continuing his consultations with political forces, in search of a difficult consensus in the National Assembly, three days after the second round of legislative elections. SOUNDBITE
French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte leave their residence in Le Touquet to go to the polling station for the second round of the legislative elections. IMAGES
Jean-Luc Mélenchon, leader of France's left-wing alliance 'Nupes' (New Popular Social and Ecological Union, Eds.), votes in Marseille during the second round of the parliamentary elections. IMAGES
Hard-left firebrand Jean-Luc Melenchon, leader the freshly-formed New Ecological and Social Popular Union (NUPES), votes in Marseille in the first round of the French parliamentary elections, as the left seeks to thwart President Emmanuel Macron's plans for reform. IMAGES
Press motorcyclists follow Emmanuel Macron's presidential convoy after his victory speech at the Champ de Mars, under the Eiffel Tower. Macron is set to win around 58 percent of the vote in the second-round run-off compared with Le Pen on 42 percent, according to projections by polling firms for French television channels based on a sample of the vote count. IMAGES