France has voted and has reelected M. Macron
To let you better understand, We vote twice.
Any one who can get 500 sponsors given by elected people in at least 30 departments can be candidates to the first vote.
The 2 candidates who get the most votes are candidates to the second one, 2 weeks after the first vote.
12 candidates participated.
M. Macron, the incumbent president got 27, 85 % of the effective votes, once deducted the abstentions, the blank and null votes. He can be classified as traditional democratic right, rather a liberal about the societal issues.
Mme Le Pen, ultra right, who presents herself as the defenders of the Poors , when they are French , got 23, 15 %.
M Mélenchon, got 21, 95 %. He is the inheritor of the French left, mixing a social-democrat view of the matters, with some views inherited from the past. He has an authoritarian streak, and could become a Maduro, if in power.
The fourth, M Zemmour, from the traditional ultra-right got 7, 07 % of the votes.
Other candidates got each less than 5 % of the votes.
The result is that, globally, the right got 30 % of the votes, the ultra-right got 34 % of the votes, and the left and the ultra-left got 33 % of the votes, the remaining being no determined.
M. Maron and Mme Le Pen were qualified for the second vote, because the left was unable to unite,each wanting to build a balance of power for the upcoming legislative elections and taking care of his inflated ego.
With many reserves, enough of left voters voted for M Macron to block the way to power to Mrs Le Pen.
M Macron was elected with 58, 54 % of the effective votes, but only 38, 52 % of the registered voters.
It means that France is divided in 3 roughly equal blocks, 2 of them rejecting M. Macron policies.
Given the French electoral system, if ultra-right and left unite, each on its side, anything can comes out from the next upcoming legislative elections.
I can add that the party “les Républicains” the inheritor of the traditional right of M. Pompidou, Giscard d’Estaing, Chirac and Sarkozy has almost disappeared, his leaders divided between Mrs Le Pen, M Macron or trying to survive by themselves.
In the same way, the socialist party, the inheritor of the social-democracy of M. Mitterrand, Jospin and Hollande, has almost disappeared, his leaders divided between M. Macron, M. Mélenchon, or trying to survive by themselves.
To speak truly, in fact many of the leaders of theses parties have rallied M. Macron these last years.
The main issue is that in 2017, M. Macron got 20, 7 M of votes and Mrs Le Pen got 10, 6 M of votes, and in 2002 they respectively got 18, 8 and 13,3 M of votes.
The main responsible of the progress of the ultra right are the persona of M Macron and his policies.