LIVE VIDEO: French Presidential Election Returns

Reuters reports:



French voters were choosing on Sunday between a young, pro-European Union centrist and a eurosceptic, anti-immigration far-rightist for their next president, with early figures indicating a relatively low turnout. Opinion polls predicted that the 39-year-old former economy minister Emmanuel Macron would win the five-year presidency, seeing off the National Front’s Marine Le Pen after an election campaign full of scandal and upsets.

Voting was not due to end until 8 p.m. (1800 GMT), but Belgian media published what they said were the results of surveys taken on Sunday by three unnamed opinion pollsters among people who had voted or intended to vote. The Belgian public broadcaster RTBF said the surveys put Macron’s share of the vote at between 62 and 64 percent. The information could not be verified by Reuters. Pollsters are not allowed to publish election-day surveys in France before voting closes.