Round One of France’s Presidential Election

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🗓️ 13 April 2022

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Over the weekend, France held the first round of its presidential elections for 2022. The result was that the same two candidates as last time will move on to the final round: incumbent President Emmanuel Macron and far-right challenger Marine Le Pen. To talk through the election results and what comes next, Jacob Schulz sat down with Agneska Bloch, a senior research assistant at a DC-based think tank where she works on European affairs.

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0:29.0	I think what might happen is that there will still be a huge extension.
0:39.0	I don't expect many more.
0:41.0	People talk about minotonal voters in the first round,
0:45.0	becoming that kind of bend voters in the second round,
0:48.0	because they talk about similarities and demographics, etc.
0:52.0	and because of similarities and demographics,
0:55.0	similarities in priorities.
0:57.0	I mentioned that purchasing power is a big concern for many French at the moment.
1:03.0	I think 54% of voters named that as their number one concern going into this first round.
1:09.0	And so I think some people have then thought,
1:11.0	oh, maybe minotonal voters in the first round will vote to bend in the second round.
1:16.0	That just, the numbers don't show that.
1:19.0	2017 is an example of that really not happening.
1:23.0	I think again, it likely won't happen,
1:27.0	but the extension is really what makes this an open question
1:31.0	and a more open race than we were expecting a few weeks ago.
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