According to Belgian media La Libre and RTBF, polls show Macron leading in French elections

French President Emmanuel Macron, a candidate for re-election, and his wife Brigitte Macron arrive to vote in the second round of the 2022 French presidential election, at a polling station in Le Touquet-Paris-Plage, France, April 24, 2022. REUTERS/Gonzalo Fuentes/Pool

BRUSSELS, April 24 (Reuters) – Belgian newspaper La Libre and Belgian public broadcaster RTBF published information on Sunday that according to two unidentified exit polls, Emmanuel Macron was leading the vote in the presidential election French with between 55% and 58% of the vote. voice.

France’s official poll watchdog said last week that the country’s eight leading pollsters had pledged not to publish exit polls and said anything purporting to reflect results before the shutdown of the last polling stations at 8 p.m. in France (6 p.m. GMT) could only be considered a rumor at best.

La Libre and RTBF stressed that the results, whose sources they did not reveal, were based on polls taken up to 5 p.m., when there were still three hours left to vote in major French cities.

Reporting by Marine Strauss Editing by Frances Kerry

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