French election special: live reports as Macron and Le Pen are through to final round
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Campaign posters of the 11 candidates in southern #France. © Reuters Maverick centrist Emmanuel Macron has come first and far-right leader Marine Le Pen second in Sunday’s first-round voting in France’s presidential elections, setting up a knockout second round contest between the two on May 7th. While the final results are yet to arrive, conservative candidate François Fillon and radical-left Jean-Luc Mélenchon were given neck and neck positions in third and fourth place respectively, separated by a fractional percentage. Socialist Party candidate Benoît Hamon is given fifth place with just more than 6% of the vote, a historically low figure for his party. Follow the results, reactions and analyses here live throughout the evening. Reporting by Graham Tearse and Michael (...)