French presidential vote to take place on April 10, 24

Next year's presidential elections in France will take place in April, with the first round on the 10th and the runoff on the 24th, government spokesman Gabriel Attal said on Tuesday.

French presidents are elected to five-year terms in a two-round election. The two candidates who get the most votes in the first round face off in the runoff.

During the last poll in 2017, centrist Emmanuel Macron beat the far-right leader Marine Le Pen. Macron has yet to declare that he will stand for a second mandate but is widely expected to do so, and Le Pen is widely expected to again be his main rival.


Legislative elections will take place on June 12 and 19, Attal said.

French voters have tended to support the party of the newly-elected president in the parliamentary election but there have been some cases of forced "cohabitation", where a president of the left or right had to work with a government from the other side of the spectrum.