Marine Le Pen has in turn been speaking, calling for those who hadn’t voted Macron to vote for her in the second round.
She said she would be the “president of all French people” if elected in the second round and touched on all the familiar themes she campaigned on ahead of the polls, including reasserting French values, controlling immigration and ensuring security for all.
To the sounds of her supporters chanting “we’re going to win”, she vowed to “put France in order within five years”.
“I intend without waiting to sew back up the tears that a torn-apart France suffers from which now power has been able to do until now,” she said.