Macron on 28% to Le Pen’s 23% in projected first round French election results

Centrist leader predicted to win first round of presidential race against far-right candidate

• France: presidential election – live

The centrist Emmanuel Macron will face the far-right Marine Le Pen in the final round of the French presidential election, after topping Sunday’s first round with 28% to her 23%, according to initial projected results.

France now faces a brutal two-week battle over the country’s future, as Macron once again styles himself as a pro-European “progressive” trying to face down what he calls Le Pen’s “racist”, anti-Muslim, nationalist programme and her “complacency” with the Russian leader, Vladimir Putin, amid the war in Ukraine.

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