(Energy Analytics Institute, 24.Apr.2022) — Energy and political briefs including Emmanuel Macron winning France’s second round presidential run off against Marine Le Pen; and ~68% of Peruvian citizens defending the need to anticipate presidential and legislative elections as a way out of the country’s political crisis.
EUROPE
France
— Emmanuel Macron won the second round presidential run off against Marine Le Pen on 24 Apr. 2022, according to details from France’s electoral authority. Macron rec’d 18,779,641 votes or 58.5% while Le Pen rec’d 13,297,760 or 41.5 %, the authority said.
LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN
Peru
— ~68% of Peruvians defend the need to anticipate presidential and legislative elections as a way out of the country’s political crisis, according to a survey by the Institute of Peruvian Studies (IEP), released 24 Apr. 2022 in the newspaper La República.
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