As France’s polls closed in the first round of presidential voting on Sunday, Marine Le Pen and Emmanuel Macron were projected by multiple news agencies to advance to a May 7 runoff.The projections, based on vote totals in certain constituencies that were then extrapolated nationwide, were reported by The Associated Press, Reuters and AFP.With 50 percent of the vote counted, Le Pen had 24 percent and Macron had 22 percent.A little more than an hour after polls closed, Le Pen declared victory to a crowd of her supporters, proclaiming herself “the great alternative” in the race.”It is time to liberate the French nation from arrogant elites who want to dictate how it must behave,” Le Pen said.

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