President Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen qualify for second round of presidential election

Emmanuel Macron (left) and Marine Le Pen (right) - Copyright AP Photo/Thibault Camus (left) and AP Photo/Lewis Joly (right)

By Lauren Chadwick

Published on 10/04/2022 - 17:59 GMT+2•Updated 11/04/2022 - 11:07 GMT+2

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French President Emmanuel Macron came first in France's presidential election with 27.6% and far-right leader Marine Le Pen came second with 23.4%, according to interior ministry figures.

French voters took to the polls on Sunday in what was turned out to be a three-horse race for the presidential run-off among the 12 candidates.

This first round of the highly anticipated contest for leadership of Europe's second-largest economy saw President Emmanuel Macron and far-right leader Marine Le Pen make it to the run-off on 24 April.

A quarter of registered French voters did not turn out. The abstention rate of around 25% was nearly three percentage points higher than in the last election in 2017.

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