French in the Americas cast votes ahead of election

(9 Apr 2022)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Buenos Aires, Argentina - 9 April 2022
1. Various of posters of election candidates at the French-Argentine Lyceum, Jean Mermoz, polling station
2. Sign with indications for voters at the polling station
3. Box with annotations and the word "Argentine" on it
5. A man organizing ballots
6. Envelopes with the names of the candidates
7. Envelope with the name of French president and candidate, Emmanuel Macron
8. People lining up waiting for their turn to vote
9. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Emmanuel de la Fourniere, French-Argentine resident:
"I think people will lean to vote for what is already there. For good or bad, this is already working, rather than trying other sectors. Although Marine Le Pen is more moderate now, she started to talk about purchasing power and some concrete problems of the French outside immigration. However, I think people will tend to think that with Macron at least we know what it is all about."
10. French Argentine Lyceum Jean Mermoz
11. SOUNDBITE (French) Guy (surname not given), French migrant living in Buenos Aires, retired:
"It's difficult because if there's a global crisis, it's a global crisis, and the president, it's difficult for him. But we can't expel everybody. Don't forget that in the First World War, Africans came to defend us; in the Second World War, Algerians came to defend us. We are all equal. (Spanish) We are all brothers."
12. Sign reading (French): "Polling stations."
13. Woman walking into the Lyceum
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Santiago, Chile - 9 April 2022
14. People walking into the "Lycée Antoine de Saint-Exupéry"
15. Banners with the faces of French presidential candidates
16. Sheets with information
17. Person inside booth
18. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Pascal Teixeira da Silva, Ambassador of France to Chile:
"We have presidential elections, the first round is Sunday but the French in the Americas vote on Saturday so as not to delay the final result, and the second round will be in two weeks. Here in Chile we have a little over 9,500 registered voters."
19. Various of people casting votes
20. Polling station with voting papers
21. Person collecting voting papers
STORYLINE:
French migrants living in Buenos Aires and Santiago cast their vote on Saturday 9th, one day ahead of the general elections in France.
Lyceums and the French Embassies at the capitals were some of the facilities used as voting centers.
French officials estimate that between 15 to 20 thousand French citizens live in Argentina, and nearly 10,000 are eligible to cast their vote. A similar number, nearly 9,500 have enrolled to vote from Chile.  
  
Pascal Teixeira da Silva, French Ambassador to Chile, explained that although the first round is scheduled for Sunday, French migrants living in the Americas cast their votes one day before to avoid delaying the results.
France's first round of the presidential election takes place on April 10, with a presidential runoff on April 24 if no candidate wins outright.
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