Macron

2022 - 4 - 24

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French presidential election results 2022: Macron wins, projections ... (NBC News)

Emmanuel Macron has held off a challenge from far-right leader Marine Le Pen to retain the French presidency, according to projected results.

While falling short of the Élysée Palace again, in her third presidential run, Le Pen still looks to have secured the most votes ever for a French far-right candidate. Addressing supporters gathered beneath the Eiffel Tower in Paris, Macron thanked those who voted for him whether they did so in support of his ideas or to prevent Le Pen from winning power. He will become the first president since Jacques Chirac two decades ago to secure a second term in office, but must now confront domestic dissatisfaction as well as the effects of both the Covid-19 pandemic and the ongoing war on the continent. But ultimately Macron, 44, looks to have won a clear victory that surpassed his polling numbers, surging in the final stages to earn five more years at the helm of one of Europe's two major powers. The centrist incumbent is projected to receive between 57 and 58.5 percent of the vote in Sunday's second-round runoff, versus 41.5 to 43 percent for Le Pen, his nationalist rival. Emmanuel Macron has held off a challenge from far-right leader Marine Le Pen to retain the French presidency, according to projected results from French polling agencies.

French election results: Emmanuel Macron will win, pollsters project ... (CNN)

Emmanuel Macron will win France's presidential election, pollsters project, fending off a historic challenge from right-wing candidate Marine Le Pen during ...

"You cannot properly defend the interests of France on this subject because your interests are linked to people close to the Russian power" Le Pen's ability to attract new voters since 2017 is the latest indication that the French public are turning to extremist politicians to voice their dissatisfaction with the status quo. This time, however, Macron had to run on a mixed record on domestic issues, like his handling of the yellow vest protests and the Covid-19 pandemic. These projections, which are based on data from voting stations that close at 7 p.m. in the rest of the country, are usually used by the candidates and French media to declare a winner. Still, Le Pen acknowledged the fact that the far right had never performed so well in a presidential election. Macron is projected to take 58.2% of the vote, according to an analysis of voting data by pollsters Ipsos & Sopra Steria conducted for broadcasters France Televisions and Radio, making him the first French leader to be reelected in 20 years.

Emmanuel Macron projected to win reelection as French president ... (CBS News)

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.

Your Monday Briefing: Macron Wins Re-election (The New York Times)

Good morning. We're covering President Emmanuel Macron's victory in France, an announced visit by top U.S. officials to Kyiv and a power re-calibration in ...

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French President Macron is staying in power with Sunday's win (NPR)

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

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European markets fall sharply as global sell-off, China Covid ... (CNBC)

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.

French President Emmanuel Macron wins reelection, defeats Marine ... (USA TODAY)

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.

Macron has won France's presidential election. But the far-right is ... (CNBC)

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%.

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