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April 11, 2022

French Elections: Macron to Face Le Pen in April 24 Runoff
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French President Emmanuel Macron and far-right candidate Marine Le Pen
are headed to an election runoff on April 24. In the first round of
voting, Macron won over 27% of the vote. Le Pen placed second with about
23%. Macron urged French voters to reject Le Pen's xenophobic policies. 

President Emmanuel Macron: "I want a France which inscribes itself in a
strong Europe, which continues to form alliances with great democracies
to defend itself, not a France that, exited from Europe, would have for
its only allies the international populists and xenophobes. That's not
us."

The leftist candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon placed third with about 22% of
the vote. He urged his supporters to not give a single vote to Marine Le
Pen in the runoff. We will have more on the French elections later in
the broadcast.


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