{"id":111226,"date":"2022-04-10T19:28:57","date_gmt":"2022-04-10T23:28:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=111226"},"modified":"2022-04-11T07:30:44","modified_gmt":"2022-04-11T11:30:44","slug":"bbc-french-elections-macron-and-le-pen-to-fight-for-presidency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=111226","title":{"rendered":"(BBC) French elections: Macron and Le Pen to fight for presidency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Emmanuel Macron has won the first round of the French election and far-right rival Marine Le Pen will fight him for the presidency for a second time.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Make no mistake, nothing is decided,&#8221; he told cheering supporters.<\/p>\n<p>In the end, he won a convincing first-round victory, but opinion polls suggest the run-off could be much closer.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Le Pen called on every non-Macron voter to join her and &#8220;put France back in order&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>With 97% of results counted, Emmanuel Macron had 27.6% of the vote, Marine Le Pen 23.41% and Jean-Luc M\u00e9lenchon 21.95%.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-europe-61061230\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">French elections: Macron and Le Pen to fight for presidency <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RVWhZZFTJP\">https:\/\/t.co\/RVWhZZFTJP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BBCWorld\/status\/1513278718634041345?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 10, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emmanuel Macron has won the first round of the French election and far-right rival Marine Le Pen will fight him for the presidency for a second time. &#8220;Make no mistake, nothing is decided,&#8221; he told cheering supporters. In the end,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=111226\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[468,151],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-france","category-politics-in-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=111226"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111230,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111226\/revisions\/111230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=111226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=111226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=111226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}