Puducherry: French nationals living within the union territory of Puducherry (a former French colony) voted within the nation’s Presidential elections, right here on Sunday.

Respectable assets stated 4,564 French electorate from Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Puducherry have been eligible to workout their franchise within the first spherical of the polls in France.

 

Resources stated the polling started at 8 AM and would cross on until 7 PM. Twelve applicants are within the fray. If no candidate will get an absolute majority within the first spherical, a run-off election can be held between the highest two applicants on April 24.

“France provides its electorate in a foreign country who’re over 18 years of age and feature registered to be within the electoral listing within the Consulate Normal of France right here to vote in individual within the nation of place of abode, a possibility to vote within the Presidential election, referendums, legislative elections, Ecu elections and election of Councillors of French electorate in a foreign country,” a liberate stated.

 

Whilst the Puducherry area has two polling cubicles housed at the premises of Consulate Normal of France and within the French faculty Lycee Francaise, Karaikal and Chennai have one polling station each and every.

Quite a few younger and aged electorate grew to become up on the cubicles within the forenoon Sunday.

A 22-year outdated voter informed PTI that she was once doing a route in a faculty affiliated to Pondicherry College and this was once the primary time that she was once exercising her franchise.

Aged girls have been additionally a part of those that forged their votes at a sales space within the French Consul Normal workplace. An 81-year outdated lady was once noticed being helped via an autorickshaw motive force to achieve the polling sales space.

 

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