<P> Elections are held on Sundays . The campaigns end at midnight the Friday before the election; then, on election Sunday, by law, no polls can be published, no electoral publication and broadcasts can be made . The voting stations open at 8 am and close at 6 pm in small towns or at 8 pm in cities, depending on prefectoral decisions . By law, publication of results or estimates is prohibited prior to that time; such results are however often available from the media of e.g. Belgium and Switzerland, or from foreign Internet sites, prior to that time . The first estimate of the results are thus known at Sunday, 8pm, Paris time; one consequence is that voters in e.g. French Guiana, Martinique and Guadeloupe knew the probable results of elections before polling booths close . It has been alleged that this discourages voting in these places . For this reason, since the 2000s, elections in French possessions in the Americas, as well as embassies and consulates there, are held on Saturdays as a special exemption . </P> <P> The next election will take place in 2022 . Current President Emmanuel Macron is eligible for re-election in that year . </P> <P> With the exception of senatorial election, for which there is an electoral college, the voters are French citizens over the age of 18 registered on the electoral rolls . People are automatically registered on reaching the age of 18 . For municipal and European, but not national, elections, citizens aged 18 or older of other European Union countries may vote in France . Registration is not compulsory, but the absence of registration precludes the possibility of voting . </P> <P> Citizens may register either in their place of residence or in a place where they have been on the roll of taxpayers for local taxes for at least 5 years, but not in more than one place . Citizens living abroad may register at the consulate responsible for the region in which they live . </P>

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