French Presidential Elections Run Next Sunday

Next Sunday, 48 million French voters will go to the polls to elect the ninth president of the Fifth Republic for a five-year term, amid expectations that the current president, Emmanuel Macron, will be the same as the new president.

The 12 candidates have only two days left to throw all their forces on the battlefield, as the period of electoral silence begins at midnight Friday - Saturday, and continues until eight o'clock in the evening of Sunday.

The first results of these elections, which are considered the main stone of French democracy, appear given the broad powers enjoyed by the President of the Republic in a hybrid presidential-parliamentary system.

Until recently, Macron, the outgoing president, was betting on winning a second term, after he succeeded in marginalizing the two parties that have ruled France since the advent of the Fifth Republic.

Today, 72 hours before the first round, it seems that history is repeating itself and that Macron and Le Pen, on Sunday, will occupy the first and second places, and will enter the second (decisive) round on April 24.