Belarus becomes only country where Le Pen won 31 8.05.2017, 9:12

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In the first round of presidential elections among French people living abroad, Marine Le Pen won only in one country.

And this country is Belarus.

27.4% of voters voted for Le Pen in our country, whereas 22.6% voted for Macron, nn.by writes.

The candidate of the National Front received a high result also in Turkmenistan, but there she took the second place after Macron. In Russia, Le Pen won in Ekaterinburg, but fell far behind in Moscow and St. Petersburg. The French in Minsk, thus, voted about the same as the French in the Russian province.

At the same time, in general, Le Pen is not at all popular among the French abroad. She received only 6.5% of votes in foreign polling stations, while Macron received 40.4%.

It is difficult to say whether this is due to the influence of media controlled by dictators, who portray the situation in the European Union as catastrophic.

Probably the majority of French citizens in Belarus are not hereditary Frenchmen, but former citizens of Belarus who obtained French citizenship but returned to their homeland for some reasons.

A total of 103 voters were registered at the consular voting stations of France in Belarus. 62 of them voted.

We remind, that there’s the embassy of France in Minsk and the French consulate in Brest.

Let us remind, that the liberal Emmanuel Macron won the presidential election in France with 66% of the votes.