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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.

Emmanuel Macron celebrates after his victory in France's presidential election, at the Champ de Mars in Paris. Bertrand Guay | Afp | Getty Images. France's ...

Warwick University Professor of French Politics Jim Shields told CNBC earlier this week that Macron had the difficult task of defending his five years in office but also presenting a fresh vision for the future. "I am no longer the candidate of a camp but the president of everyone," Macron said as he addressed his supporters against a backdrop of the Eiffel Tower in Paris. - "I am no longer the candidate of a camp but the president of everyone," Macron said as he addressed his supporters.

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

El presidente, Emmanuel Macron, fue el ganador de la segunda vuelta este domingo. Con cerca del 100% de los votos escrutados los resultados arrojan que el ...

Su padre, Jean Marie Le Pen, fundador del Frente Nacional, se quedó en 2002 con el 17% de los votos frente a Jacques Chirac. Antes, Emmanuel Macron tomará posesión para un nuevo mandato, el último, pues no podrá volver a aspirar a una tercera reelección. Marine Le Pen salió a rueda de prensa tras la publicación de las primeras estimaciones. Al cierre de los colegios electorales, las primeras estimaciones dibujaron un resultado igual al de 2017, pero con unos porcentajes diferentes. Unos datos que otorgan la reelección al candidato liberal de la República En Marcha, Emmanuel Macron, frente a la candidata de extrema derecha de Agrupación Nacional, Marine Le Pen. 58,55% de los sufragios.

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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. Pasaron las siguientes dos semanas recorriendo el país para cortejar a quienes no votaron por ellos en la primera ronda Los encuestadores franceses suelen publicar proyecciones a las 8 p.m. hora local, cuando cierran las urnas en las principales ciudades y varias horas antes de que el Ministerio del Interior francés publique los resultados oficiales.

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“The park should, as far as possible, complement the town,” he wrote. Some of his parks also became the staging grounds for social justice protests. His creations are more essential to American life than ever, Audra D. S. Burch writes in The Times. Analysis: Tokyo has long tried to join the “Five Eyes” intelligence partnership, through which the United States, Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand share intelligence. Zelensky said Ukraine had begun to receive the sort of heavy weaponry it needed, and he promised victory. Satellite images appear to show a growing mass grave on the city’s outskirts, and the mayor said that “at least 15,000 elderly and those with chronic diseases may die.” South Korea’s departing president, Moon Jae-in, urged dialogue with the U.S. in awarm farewell letterto Kim Jong-un, North Korea’s dictator. Fighting continues to rage in the country’s east. Russia, which has taken more than three dozen small towns in the region, ignored calls for a cease-fire during the Orthodox Easter holiday. In New York City, Chinatown’s civic groups have long used their coveted real estate portfolio to hold back encroaching gentrification. Early projections showed Macron, a centrist, gaining 58.5 percent of the vote to Le Pen’s 41.5 percent. Its missiles struck the port city of Odesa — which has been largely spared attacks on its civilians — killing at least eight people.

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.

El presidente Emmanuel Macron fue reelegido por un cómodo margen a un segundo período el domingo en la segunda vuelta electoral de Francia, ...

Gana Europa”, tuiteó el presidente del gobierno español Pedro Sánchez. El primer ministro italiano Mario Draghi elogió la victoria de Macron, calificándola de “una noticia espléndida para toda Europa” y un impulso a que la UE “sea una protagonista en los mayores desafíos de nuestros tiempos, empezando por la guerra en Ucrania”. Un segundo período de cinco años para el centrista Macron le ahorra a Francia y a sus aliados la convulsión sísmica de una transferencia de poder en tiempos de guerra a Marine Le Pen, la aspirante de extrema derecha que rápidamente reconoció su derrota el domingo por la noche pero que de todas formas parecía encaminada a obtener su mayor respaldo electoral a sus políticas intensamente nacionalistas.

PARIS (AP) — France began voting in a presidential runoff election Sunday in a race between between incumbent Emmanuel Macron and far-right politician ...

“I want to thank them and tell them that I am aware that their vote obliges me for the years to come,” he said. The war in Ukraine and the COVID-19 pandemic battered Macron’s first term, as did months of violent protests against his economic policies. Many French voters found the 2022 presidential rematch less compelling than in 2017, when Macron was an unknown factor. French President Emmanuel Macron celebrates with supporters in front of the Eiffel Tower Paris, France, Sunday, April 24, 2022. Some trooped reluctantly to polling stations solely to stop Le Pen, casting joyless votes for Macron. "I am the custodian of their sense of duty, of their attachment to the Republic.” He was cheered by several hundred supporters who happily waved French and EU flags. In celebrating victory, Macron acknowledged a debt to voters who helped get him over the line, “not to support the ideas I hold, but to block those of the extreme right.” Italian Premier Mario Draghi called Macron's victory “splendid news for all of Europe” and a boost to the EU "being a protagonist in the greatest challenges of our times, starting with the war in Ukraine.” The drop in support for Macron compared to five years ago points to a tough battle ahead for the president to rally people behind him in his second term. “No one will be left by the side of the road," Macron said in a victory speech against the backdrop of the Eiffel Tower and a projection of the blue-white-and-red tricolor French flag. Acknowledging that “numerous” voters cast ballots for him simply to keep out the fiercely nationalist far-right Le Pen, Macron pledged to reunite the country that is “filled with so many doubts, so many divisions” and work to assuage the anger of French voters that fed Le Pen's campaign.

El presidente francés obtiene un 58,54% de los votos frente al 41,46% de la candidata de extrema derecha con el 100% escrutado.

Desde Barclays indicaron la semana pasada que Macron probablemente continuará implementando reformas favorables a los negocios y la transición verde y la reducción de las desigualdades. El banco japonés Nomura, por su parte, estimó que incluso podría caer hasta 1,03, mínimos no vistos desde 2016. El triunfo del candidato liberal, aunque alivia a los inversores, es agridulce ante la altísima abstención y el hecho de que la extrema derecha del país haya logrado sus mejores resultados hasta la fecha. "En esta derrota veo una forma de esperanza. Durante su discurso tras conocerse los resultados electorales, pronunciado frente a la Torre Eiffel, Macron se mostró prudente. Con todo, lanza un mensaje de estabilidad en el plano económico para el nuevo ciclo político que se abre, cuya configuración final saldrá de las legislativas que se celebran en junio.

Le Pen also spoke out against sanctions on Russian energy supplies and faced scrutiny during the election campaign over her previous friendliness with the ...

Macron went into the vote with a sizeable lead in polls but unable to be sure of victory from a fractured, anxious and tired electorate. Appealing to working-class voters struggling with surging prices, Le Pen has vowed that bringing down the cost of living would be her priority if elected. The war in Ukraine and the COVID-19 pandemic battered Macron's first term, as did months of violent protests against his economic policies. Five years ago, Macron won a sweeping victory to become France's youngest president at 39. Polling agencies' projections released as the last voting stations closed said Macron was on course to beat Le Pen by a double-digit margin. Macron's rival, far-right nationalist Marine Le Pen, quickly conceded Sunday night.

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.

French polling agencies are projecting that centrist incumbent Emmanuel Macron will win France's presidential runoff Sunday, beating far right rival Marine ...

President Emmanuel Macron has won reelection, beating Marine Le Pen, his far-right rival, in a presidential election runoff.

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PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron comfortably won reelection to a second term Sunday, according to polling agencies' projections. In the midst of ...

“I want to thank them and tell them that I am aware that their vote obliges me for the years to come,” he said. The war in Ukraine and the COVID-19 pandemic battered Macron’s first term, as did months of violent protests against his economic policies. Many French voters found the 2022 presidential rematch less compelling than in 2017, when Macron was an unknown factor. Some trooped reluctantly to polling stations solely to stop Le Pen, casting joyless votes for Macron. He was cheered by several hundred supporters who happily waved French and EU flags. Italian Premier Mario Draghi called Macron’s victory “splendid news for all of Europe” and a boost to the EU “being a protagonist in the greatest challenges of our times, starting with the war in Ukraine.”

PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron comfortably won a second term Sunday, triggering relief among allies that the nuclear-armed power won't abruptly ...

“I want to thank them and tell them that I am aware that their vote obliges me for the years to come,” he said. The war in Ukraine and the COVID-19 pandemic battered Macron’s first term, as did months of violent protests against his economic policies. Many French voters found the 2022 presidential rematch less compelling than in 2017, when Macron was an unknown factor. Some trooped reluctantly to polling stations solely to stop Le Pen, casting joyless votes for Macron. He was cheered by several hundred supporters who happily waved French and EU flags. Italian Premier Mario Draghi called Macron’s victory “splendid news for all of Europe” and a boost to the EU “being a protagonist in the greatest challenges of our times, starting with the war in Ukraine.”

European stocks opened sharply lower on Monday as investors digest the projected result of the French presidential election.

Shares of Dutch health technology company Philips were down 10% after the firm reported a steep drop in first-quarter core profit. Official results showed centrist Macron of the La Republique En Marche party gaining 58.5% in the second and final round of voting. The negative open in Europe comes after Asia-Pacific markets fell sharply on Monday following a sell-off on Wall Street on Friday. Mainland Chinese indexes led losses. Wall Street is also bracing itself for a stacked week of earnings, including reports from major tech companies such as Amazon and Apple. Risk appetite has taken a notable knock with equities continuing to head south. The pan-European Stoxx 600 index opened 1.3% lower with all sectors in negative territory apart from utilities.

PARÍS.- Los franceses confiaron un nuevo mandato de cinco años al centrista Emmanuel Macron en la segunda vuelta en las presidenciales en Francia, frente a ...

Gana Europa”, tuiteó. “Ante todo: gracias”, dijo el presidente en su discurso de victoria. “A partir de ahora, ya no soy el candidato de un grupo, sino el presidente de todos”, agregó durante el discurso de su victoria a los pies de la torre Eiffel, en París, donde prometió además un “método renovado” para dirigir el país tras un primer mandato marcado por las protestas. Le Pen aseguró que su resultado en la elección presidencial en Francia representa “una brillante victoria”, pese a haber perdido. Según las primeras estimaciones, el candidato de La República en Marcha (LREM) obtuvo entre 57.6 por ciento y 58.2 por ciento de los votos, una victoria más estrecha que en 2017 cuando derrotó a su rival de la Agrupación Nacional (RN) con un 66.1 por ciento de votos contra 33.9 por ciento. El triunfo de Macron aleja el proyecto de ruptura de la candidata de RN, de 53 años, que aboga por excluir a los extranjeros de las ayudas sociales inscribiendo la “prioridad nacional” en la Constitución y abandonar el mando integrado de la OTAN.

Political analysts believe the continued rise of the far-right will cause Emmanuel Macron significant headaches over the coming years.

Eric Zemmour, also an anti-immigration and far-right politician, was one of the many new names in the French political scene in the runup to this year's election. Jean-Marie Le Pen received 17.8% of the votes that year. She and her party, National Rally, will now face a renewed challenge from Eric Zemmour and her own niece, Marion Maréchal," Rahman said in the same note. Having taken the reins of the party from her father in 2011, then called National Front, she ran for top office in 2012, 2017 and now 2022. Instead, Le Pen chose to talk about soaring inflation and the weaker purchasing power of French citizens. Centrist Macron obtained 58.54% of the votes on Sunday, whereas his nationalist and far-right rival Le Pen got 41.46%. Back in 2017, when the two politicians also disputed the second round of the French presidential vote, Macron won with 66.1% versus Le Pen's 33.9%.

Luis Ernesto Quintana Barney. (CNN) –Emmanuel Macron ganó las elecciones presidenciales de Francia, defendiéndose de un desafío histórico de la candidata de ...

Aunque desde entonces ha condenado la invasión de Moscú, Macron atacó a Le Pen por sus posiciones anteriores durante el debate. 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. “No puede defender adecuadamente los intereses de Francia en este tema porque sus intereses están vinculados a personas cercanas al poder ruso”. 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”.

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En muchos aspectos, esta votación podría tener una mayor importancia a largo plazo para Macron, Francia y su lugar en el mundo que la carrera presidencial. Macron aún tiene dos meses más como líder titular de Europa, en el sistema rotativo que permite a cada país de la UE un mandato de seis meses. Más allá de Europa, Macron desempeñará un papel central manejando la pregonada influencia de Francia en el escenario mundial. Los votantes simplemente optaron, en estos tiempos difíciles, por un término medio seguro en lugar de un candidato de ultraderecha que prometió destrozar la economía y la sociedad y acercar a Francia cada vez más a Rusia, todo en aras de un cambio que los franceses nunca han abrazado del todo. Una vez que acaben las celebraciones de victoria, el reelecto presidente tendrá un plato lleno, y gran parte del mundo está atento de la agenda que fije. Sobre todo, las elecciones del domingo en efecto resolvieron, al menos por el momento, la pregunta más importante planteada durante la campaña: ¿La mayoría de los franceses realmente quiere cambiar tanto su país y especialmente este tipo de gobierno que les ha servido tan bien para toda la Quinta República que ha durado casi tres cuartos de siglo?

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En muchos aspectos, esta votación podría tener una mayor importancia a largo plazo para Macron, Francia y su lugar en el mundo que la carrera presidencial. Macron aún tiene dos meses más como líder titular de Europa, en el sistema rotativo que permite a cada país de la UE un mandato de seis meses. Más allá de Europa, Macron desempeñará un papel central manejando la pregonada influencia de Francia en el escenario mundial. Lo que Le Pen hizo para la mayoría de sus decididos seguidores fue demostrar que podía ser “presidencial”, aunque no presidenta de una Francia en la que la mayoría de los franceses probablemente no aspiran a vivir. Una vez que acaben las celebraciones de victoria, el reelecto presidente tendrá un plato lleno, y gran parte del mundo está atento de la agenda que fije. Sobre todo, las elecciones del domingo en efecto resolvieron, al menos por el momento, la pregunta más importante planteada durante la campaña: ¿La mayoría de los franceses realmente quiere cambiar tanto su país y especialmente este tipo de gobierno que les ha servido tan bien para toda la Quinta República que ha durado casi tres cuartos de siglo?

Marine Le Pen had her best performance to date, and has successfully pushed many of her far-right ideas into the mainstream.

Seventeen points separated Le Pen from the presidency—a markedly closer margin than those previously experienced by herself and her father (both of whom have lost in the second round by more than 30- and 60-point margins, respectively). More than a quarter of the electorate chose not to vote at all. She has advanced to the presidential runoff twice, but perhaps most significant of all, she has normalized her far-right politics on Islam and immigration and has forced her mainstream opponents—Macron among them—to engage with, and in some cases even appropriate, her views. In an interview last year with the Financial Times, Macron’s interior minister Gérald Darmanin, who once accused Le Pen of having “ gone soft” on Islam, argued that courting Le Pen’s voters would be essential to preventing her from taking more votes. In a little more than a decade, she has succeeded in transforming her party, the National Rally (formerly the National Front), from a toxic fringe group to one of the most significant players in French politics. From Britain to Germany, they have proved just as capable of influencing politics from the sidelines, and sometimes even getting mainstream parties to do their work for them. In her concession speech last night, she praised the results, her best electoral performance to date, as a “resounding victory” and suggested that this election would not mark the end of her political career.