Despite a poor campaign, centrist French President Macron has emerged in first place, with 27.8% of the vote — 3 points up on 2017 and better than final opinion polls predicted.
April 11 (UPI) — After the first round of the 2017 presidential election in France, economist Thomas Piketty suggested that while there were four candidates on very close scores at the head of the field (Emmanuel Macron, Marine Le Pen, François Fillon and Jean-Luc Mélenchon), in reality France was divided into three political camps: a socialist and more-or-less eurosceptic left, a pro-European and liberal center and right, and a nationalist far right.
