Center-right candidate François Charles Amand Fillon had 60.41 percent or 5,056 of the 8,434 people in Israel who turned out to vote in Sunday's first round of balloting in the French presidential election. The turnout was less than 20 percent of the 58,000 eligible to vote here.
Emmanuel Macron, considered the choice of French Jews, got 2,589 votes (almost 31 percent), while Marine Le Pen received 311 votes (3.72 percent). The other candidates got dozens of votes each, worth a small percentage or fraction of a percent.