EMMANUEL MACRON


Emmanuel Macron is reported to have got 24% of the vote.

Le Pen around 22%.

The two face off in the decisive second round, two weeks later.


Macron

In a tweeted cartoon, "Macron was identified as a hook-nosed banker pulling the strings of a number of leading figures on the centre-left."

Macron urges respect


Macron

Le Pen and her allies dismiss Macron as the candidate of a dying establishment.

"Change is obviously not going to come from the heir of Francois Hollande and his disastrous mandate of failures," she told supporters.

Le Pen is said to be supported by Donald Trump, Alex Jones and Mossad.


Macron (left)

Emmanuel Macron leads the En Marche! (Let's Go!) party.

He denies having a gay affair.

He is a multi-millionaire.

He has been compared to Tony Blair.

He is a former Rothschild banker.

"As the minister of economy, he facilitated the sale of big French companies to American corporations," Republicans party lawmaker Nicolas Dhuicq has said.

Ex-French Economy Minister Macron Could Be 'US Agent'.


Mathieu Gallet, with whom Macron is alleged to be having a gay affair.

France has a two-round system of voting. 

It has been predicted that Macron will win in the second round.

Emmanuel Macron (39) is alleged to be having a gay affair with Radio France boss Mathieu Gallet (40).

The French tend to be tolerant of 'affairs' and of 'bisexuality'.


Macron and Brigitte Trogneux, who is in her sixties.

Macron is married to Brigitte Trogneux who is 24 years older than him.

Trogneux has three children from a previous marriage.

When Macron was aged 15, Trogneux was his teacher at La Providence, a Jesuit high school in Amiens.

The Russian state news agency Sputnik has made allegations that Macron is backed by a gay lobby.

French MP Nicolas Dhuicq, of the conservative Republican Party, said of Macron: "Concerning his private life, it is becoming known….He is supported by a rich, gay lobby."

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