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France's incumbent leader Emmanuel Macron and far-right challenger Marine Le Pen are heading for an April 24 presidential election runoff, projections showed after first round voting on Sunday.

With projections putting Macron in first place ahead of Le Pen after Sundays first round voting, other major candidates admitted defeat. Except for another far-right candidate, Eric Zemmour, they all urged voters to back the incumbent in two weeks time in order to block the far-right, , france, French President, Emmanuel Macron, marine le pen, election, presidential election

Marine Le Pen, who had eaten into the president’s once-commanding 10-point poll lead in recent weeks, said she was the one to protect the weak and unite a…

France's incumbent leader Emmanuel Macron and far-right challenger Marine Le Pen are heading for an April 24 presidential election runoff, projections showed after first round voting on Sunday.

French leader Emmanuel Macron and his strongest challenger Marine Le Pen qualified on Sunday for a presidential election runoff on April 24, pitting a pro-European economic liberal against a far-right nationalist.

Incumbent leader Emmanuel Macron was riding high in polls barely a month ago, but Marine Le Pen's anti-immigration, deeply eurosceptic campaign is narrowing the gap

Macron and Le Pen head for French election runoff

By Mimosa Spencer, Tassilo Hummel and Ingrid Melander PARIS (Reuters) -French leader Emmanuel Macron and challenger Marine Le Pen qualified on Sunday for

France's incumbent leader Emmanuel Macron and far-right challenger Marine Le Pen are heading for a 24 April presidential election runoff, projections showed after first round voting.

After first-round voting, partial results put Mr Macron in first place ahead of far-right nationalist Marine Le Pen.