The Constitutional Council in Paris on Monday announced the official list of candidates running for the French presidency in the April elections. Of the 65 candidates who expressed interest in running, 12 garnered the required support from 500 politicians each to be eligible to run.
Who is on the ballot?
Incumbent President Emanuel Macron, bolstered by recent optimistic economic figures and widely seen as a candidate for stability amid an international crisis such as the current conflict in Ukraine, is the likely favorite to win.
Macron, who founded the centrist En Marche party, has led the country since 2017. As happened in 2017, Macron is expected to face the far-right Marin Le Pen of the National Rally in the second round.
Other contenders are Valerie Pecresse of the center-right Republican Party. The mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, of the Socialist Party. Jean-Luc Melanson. of the far left La France Insoumise; Fabien Roussel, of the French Communist Party; Yannick Jadot, of the left-wing Green Party. and far-right candidate Eric Zemour.
Elections will be held on April 10. If no candidate wins the majority, the two with the most votes will face each other in the second round on April 24.
js / wd (AFP, dpa)
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