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BREAKING: Emmanuel Macron Become France's Next President by Nobody: 7:40pm On May 07, 2017 |
Emmanuel Macron was elected president of
France on Sunday with a business-friendly
vision of European integration, defeating Marine
Le Pen, a far-right nationalist who threatened to
take France out of the European Union,
according to early projections from five polling
organisations showed.
The centrist's emphatic victory, which also
smashed the dominance of France’s
mainstream parties, will bring huge relief to
European allies who had feared another
populist upheaval to follow Britain's vote to quit
the EU and Donald Trump's election as US
president.
The 39-year-old former investment banker, who
served for two years as economy minister but
has never previously held elected office, will
now become France's youngest leader since
Napoleon with a promise to transcend outdated
left-right divisions.
Three projections, issued within minutes of
polling stations closing at 8 pM (1800 GMT),
showed Macron beating Le Pen by around 65
percent to 35 - a gap wider than the 20 or so
percentage points that pre-election surveys had
pointed to.
Even so, it was a record performance for the
National Front, a party whose anti-immigrant
policies until recently made it a pariah in
French politics, and underlined the scale of the
divisions that he must try to heal.
Le Pen called to congratulate Macron shortly
after news broke of her defeat, telling her
supporters and members of the press that she
wished the new president "success faced with
huge challenges".
The far-right candidate's high-spending, anti-
globalisation 'France-first' policies may have
unnerved financial markets, but they appealed
to many poorer members of society against a
background of high unemployment, social
tensions and security concerns.
The 48-year-old's share of the vote was set to
be almost twice that won by her father Jean-
Marie, the last National Front candidate to
qualify for a presidential runoff, who was
trounced by Jacques Chirac in 2002.
Macron's immediate challenge will be to secure
a majority in next month's parliamentary
election for En Marche! (Onwards!), his political
movement that is barely a year old, in order to
implement his programme.
However, at least one opinion poll published in
the run-up to the second round has indicated
that this could be within reach. |
Re: BREAKING: Emmanuel Macron Become France's Next President by jeslofem: 8:12pm On May 07, 2017 |
congrat to him. 39yrs old. kai |
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