48.7 mln citizens registered to vote in France's presidential election: INSEE
Date
3/24/2022 9:06:25 PM
(MENAFN- Trend News Agency)
Some 48.7 million French citizens have registered to vote in
this April's presidential election, the French National Institute
of Statistics and Economic Studies (INSEE) said on Thursday,
Trend reports
citing Xinhua .
According to the institute, 47.05 million people registered on
municipal lists, 1.43 million registered overseas on consular
lists, and 0.22 million registered in the French overseas territory
of New Caledonia.
In metropolitan France and the 13 French overseas territories,
95 percent of the citizens who are eligible to vote are registered
on municipal lists, it said.
The French Constitutional Council has validated the candidacy of
12 persons, among them Emmanuel Macron, Marine le Pen and Valerie
Pecresse.
If no candidate wins the absolute majority of the votes cast in
the first election round on April 10, the top two candidates will
progress to a runoff vote on April 24.
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