@schestowitz France has strict rules about what media can or cannot do during elections. The time allocated to each candidate much be equal during the last weeks before the election. French media cannot publish interviews, or talk about the candidates of the elections after the end of the campaign, until the result are published.
The campaign of the election ends in the night of Friday to Saturday at midnight, and the result are published at 20h on Sunday. That means that the media must keep silence on the candidates during 44 hours.

Those leaks were published four hours before the end of the campaign.