Emmanuel Macron

Macron's victory deals a setback to the populist movements that have upended politics across the western world, from Brexit to Donald Trump.

In a closer-than-expected margin, Macron finished with 27.85% of the vote, and Le Pen with 23.15%. After her loss in the 2017 presidential election, Le Pen sought to soften her image. There is anger at the cost of living." Those defeats could be "a giant victory for the renewal of democratic values in Europe and a huge setback for populist nationalism," McFaul said. "There are things he will have to address," Haddad said. Le Pen herself told supporters that "more than ever I will continue my work for the French." Le Pen has long espoused an anti-immigrant agenda, and in this campaign, she called for banning Muslim women from wearing headscarves in public. He also said her anti-Muslim policies would trigger a "civil war" in France. "There is discontent," Haddad said. American and European government officials greeted news of Macron's reelection with relief. In a rematch of the 2017 presidential election, Macron led challenger Marine Le Pen with more than 58% of the vote, according to projected results from the French news media, working with national pollsters. Others pointed out that Le Pen did better in this French election than the one five years ago, and the conservative populist movement still has to be taken seriously in the U.S. Europe, and elsewhere.

With an estimated 58% of the vote, Emmanuel Macron has been reelected as President of France.

And, he said, “I think of those who voted for Marine Le Pen and for whom this is a disappointment,” at that the crowd began to boo, with Macron admonishing, “Don’t boo anyone… We cannot imagine what this terrible sign would mean for Europe and for the world.” Macron appeared on the Champ de Mars later in the evening, and walked to the stage surrounded by his wife and a group of children. France has been divided in recent weeks, with many decrying the options presented in the election. Congratulations to @EmmanuelMacronon your re-election as President of France. France is one of our closest and most important allies. In conclusion, Macron said the divisions expressed in this election must be healed “by ensuring respect for everyone, every day. He continued, “I know also that a number of our compatriots voted for me today, not to support my ideas, but to block those of the extreme right. This is higher than in 2017, and is also more than the first round of voting two weeks ago. “Tonight,” she concluded, “I say it again, I will never abandon the French people.” “The French people are expressing this evening the desire for a strong counter-power to that of Emmanuel Macron… A great political recomposition is emerging in this country.” She added that “the game is not quite played,” given legislative elections will take place in a few weeks. Le Pen was at the Pavillion d’Armenonville in Paris’ 16th arrondissement where she appeared shortly after the results. Today marked the second runoff between candidates from parties other than the traditional left and right.

Part of the problem with assessing contemporary leaders is the tendency to compare them not with real-life predecessors but with simplified myths.

He is selfish; he is arrogant; he believes himself the center of the world. A cold, hard look at metrics such as tax receipts, economic growth, and the size of the state at the beginning and at the end of her time in office reveals a far less revolutionary figure than is often portrayed. Thus, de Gaulle is not the flawed, arrogant, and monarchical figure that he was, but simply the prescient and heroic leader we now know. Yet this is exactly what marked Thatcher’s time in office too—as well as the deep public loathing that Macron suffers today. In Europe, despite grand plans to reinvigorate the EU by giving it the tools to deal with future crises of the sort that crippled its single currency in 2011, it is far from clear that he has managed to change much. Part of the problem with assessing contemporary leaders such as Macron is that we tend to compare them not with real-life predecessors but with simplified myths. The result of everything is that Macron is an extraordinarily divisive figure in France, loathed by swaths of the public far more intensely than even the unpopular former presidents, Nicolas Sarkozy and François Hollande. At home, despite promising la rupture with the past, making France more dynamic and attractive for investment, he was forced to abandon some of his reform agenda amid an outburst of public anger, the gilet jaunes movement. And then, this year, as Russia lined up to invade Ukraine, Macron treated the world to another dose of his wisdom, warning that this was the time for Europe to establish its own dialogue with Russia, independent of the U.S.-led NATO. The French president, who is projected to be reelected for a second five-year term today, is certainly selfish, and arrogant, and seems to think the world revolves around his own apparently endless brilliance and grandeur. “He is selfish, he is arrogant, he believes he is the center of the world,” Churchill replied. In 2019, at the height of Donald Trump’s presidency, Macron sparked anger among his allies and joy in the Kremlin after warning that NATO was suffering a “brain death,” unable to confront the United States’ slow disengagement from Europe that was leaving the continent a geopolitical slave.

French President Emmanuel Macron won a second five-year term on Sunday over Marine Le Pen, and the Western alliance against Russia's invasion of Ukraine can ...

The President is the first French leader to earn a second term in two decades, and he owes his victory in part to the luck of having Ms. Le Pen as an opponent. A political newcomer in 2017, he beat Ms. Le Pen by 32 percentage points while warning of his opponent’s radicalism and vowing to restore French dynamism. French President Emmanuel Macron won a second five-year term on Sunday over Marine Le Pen, and the Western alliance against Russia’s invasion of Ukraine can breathe easier.

Sin embargo, la participación electoral estaba en camino de ser la más baja para una segunda vuelta presidencial desde 2002, según datos del gobierno publicados ...

La capacidad de Le Pen para atraer nuevos votantes desde 2017 es el último indicio de que el público francés recurre a políticos extremistas para expresar su descontento con el statu quo. Aunque desde entonces ha condenado la invasión de Moscú, Macron atacó a Le Pen por sus posiciones anteriores durante el debate. Esta vez, sin embargo, Macron tuvo que presentar un historial mixto en cuestiones internas, como su manejo de las protestas de los chalecos amarillos y la pandemia de covid-19. Aun así, Le Pen reconoció el hecho de que la ultraderecha nunca se había desempeñado tan bien en una elección presidencial. La celebración fue significativamente más discreta que después de la victoria de Macron en 2017, aunque una vez más caminó para pronunciar su discurso al himno europeo, comúnmente conocido como la "Oda a la Alegría". Pasaron las siguientes dos semanas recorriendo el país para cortejar a quienes no votaron por ellos en la primera ronda

Los franceses confiaron este domingo 24 de abril un nuevo mandato de cinco años al presidente centrista Emmanuel Macron en el balotaje frente a Marine Le.

El triunfo de Macron aleja el proyecto de ruptura de la candidata de RN, de 53 años, que abogaba por excluir a los extranjeros de las ayudas sociales inscribiendo la “prioridad nacional” en la Constitución y abandonar el mando integrado de la OTAN. Francia optó por la continuidad con un dirigente europeísta, que además se convirtió en el primero en lograr la reelección desde 2002 cuando el conservador Jacques Chirac derrotó al padre de su rival de este domingo, el ultraderechista Jean-Marie Le Pen. Según las primeras estimaciones, el candidato de La República en Marcha (LREM) obtuvo 8,2 % de votos, una victoria más estrecha que en 2017 cuando derrotó a su rival de la Agrupación Nacional (RN) con un 66,1 % de votos contra 33,9 %.