With some 40 million ballots counted, Emmanuel Macron scored 23.54% of the vote, while Marine Le Pen got 22.33%, the French Interior Ministry said.

The figures are based on the results of the ballot count in small settlements and towns and are expected to be significantly revised once the results of vote in major cities becomes known

According to RTBF, Macron is scoring 45.35% in North America. He is followed by Francois Fillon (The Republicans) with 25.33%, and Jean-Luc Melenchon (La France insoumise) with 14.05% of the vote. The leader of the National Front, Marine Le Pen, is fourth having 6.29% of votes.

Près de 47 millions de Français étaient appelés aux urnes, dimanche, pour le premier tour de l‘élection présidentielle où onze candidats étaient en lice. Selon les premières estimations, Emmanuel Macron et Marine Le Pen s‘affronteront au second tour.

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France is voting today in the first round of presidential elections, one of several contests in Europe that are being closely watched worldwide. Join us as our journalists weigh in on what it means, and click here to find out what to watch for tonight.

Before Mr Comey‘s arrival, a CIA jet touched down on the tarmac at Queenstown Airport.

And, just like a scene out of an action flick, two security personnel stood guard as a number of men and women in suits exited the plane before being quickly ushered along the tarmac into waiting vehicles.

Wearing sunglasses, a light blue shirt and chino pants, he arrived on an FBI chartered Gulfstream Aerospace.

Some of the biggest political issues in the world are likely to be discussed on our shores over the next few days.

Heads of major international intelligence agencies comprising the Five Eyes alliance are descending on Queenstown to discuss world security.

But with polls showing Mrs. Clinton holding a comfortable lead, Mr. Comey ended up plunging the F.B.I. into the molten center of a bitter election. Fearing the backlash that would come if it were revealed after the election that the F.B.I. had been investigating the next president and had kept it a secret, Mr. Comey sent a letter informing Congress that the case was reopened.

What he did not say was that the F.B.I. was also investigating the campaign of Donald J. Trump.

Der Zeitpunkt der Proteste und Demonstrationen für mehr Autonomie im Überseedepartment Französisch-Guyana mit der Zuspitzung durch die Besetzung des Europäischen Raumfahrtzentrums ausgerechnet während der Wahl eines neuen Präsidenten in Frankreich ist mehr als unglücklich gewählt.

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Obama waged a war on whistleblowers during his eight-year run. Sure, it was done under a sunny facade of „transparency,“ but the former president set the gold standard for whistleblower prosecutions, performing more than every other president until then… combined.

Punishing whistleblowers is for amateurs. The Trump Administration will show everyone how it‘s done.

Unter dem Schutz von Polizei und Militär stimmen die Franzosen zur Stunde über einen Nachfolger von Präsident François Hollande ab.

(7.4.2017) 2nd round: Macron 59% vs LePen 41%

(4.3.2017) Nicht die erste Runde der französischen Präsidentschaftswahlen am 23. April 2017, sondern die Stichwahl zwischen den beiden vorne liegenden Kandidaten am 7. Mai wird den nächsten Präsidenten des seit den Attentaten in Paris unter Ausnahmezustand liegenden Frankreich bestimmen. Da sich voraussichtlich gegen die Front National und deren Kandidatin Marine Le Pen alle anderen politischen Parteien verbünden und den (vermutlich zweitplatzierten) anderen Kandidaten unterstützen werden, ist ergo die entscheidende Frage, wer bei der ersten Runde neben Le Pen in die Stichwahl einzieht.

Derzeit versuchen Frankreichs „Eliten“, wie sie sich auch dort nennen, zusammen mit ihren entsprechenden Brüdern und Schwestern in den transatlantischen / paneuropäischen Gilden, ihren Kandidaten Emmanuel Macron in den Elysee-Palast zu bugsieren.

If far-right‘s Le Pen and far-left‘s Mélenchon overtake front-runner Macron, it‘s hard to see how the EU could last for long

Voters on Sunday are casting their ballots in the first election in France’s modern history to take place under a state of emergency. Security has been tightened across the country with many polling stations guarded by armed police and soldiers.

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