The first-round vote was a sober reminder that, on Emmanuel Macron’s watch, the populist vote has not lost its mass appeal
Save time by listening to our audio articles as you multitaskThree features of the vote stand out. First, Mr Macron drew 1m more votes than in 2017, pushing his score four points higher to the best first-round result for an incumbent president since François Mitterrand in 1988.
The flipside of Mr Macron’s remarkable success at building a broad centrist church, however, is the third and more sinister element of this vote. The combined score for all populist, radical and extremist candidates was nearly 58%, sharply up from just below 50% in 2017. Tactical voting may have inflated this total. The radical-left Jean-Luc Mélenchon supplied the biggest surprise, coming in third with 22%.
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