(VOVworld) - The first round of the vote
will be held on Sunday, April 23 with the run-off between the top two
candidates on May 7. Elections are always held on Sundays in France.
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| French policemen in Paris on April 20th (Photo: TTXVN) |
The
campaigns ended at midnight on Friday, and Saturday April 22 is the silent day,
a day before the election, then on
election Sunday by law no polls can be published and no electoral publication
and broadcasts can be made. There are 11 candidates in the first round of the
vote of which there are four candidates are the most potential to win. Emmanuel Macron, former French economy
minister is now top the list with more than 23 percents of the favor votes according
to some public surveys. The far-right party
leader of the France’s National Front (FN), Jean-Marie Le Pen, is now the
second favorite in the race, followed by the other two candidates, the Former
Prime Minister Francois Fillon and Jean-Luc Melenchon a former Socialist who left the party in 2008
to create his own far-left movement, the Left Party.