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Apr 25, 2022 · Emmanuel Macron has won five more years as France's president after a convincing victory over rival Marine Le Pen, who nevertheless secured the far right's highest share of the vote yet. He won...
Apr 24, 2022 · Le Pen, 53, was running for the presidency for a third time and has conceded defeat. Addressing supporters earlier, she said her party's unprecedented vote share was still a victory. Live...
Apr 24, 2022 · His far-right challenger Marine Le Pen won 41.2% of the vote in an election that saw the country’s highest abstention rate in 50 years. Read our live blog to see how all the day's events...
- ‘Europe Wins’
- ‘Not So Much A Duel as A Duo’
- Macron’s Fightback
- On to The ‘Third Round’
The stakes were huge in Sunday’s election. Victory for Le Pen would have sent shockwaves around the European Union, which she vowed to radically reform once in power, remodelling it as an “alliance of nations”. The far-right leader insisted she had no “secret agenda” to drag France – a founding member of the EU – out of the 27-nation bloc, its sing...
In his victory speech in 2017, Macron had promised to “do everything” in his power to ensure the French “have no longer any reason to vote for the extremes”. Five years later, the far right has surged to its best-ever score and the mainstream centre-left has been supplanted by a more radical force. That populist, anti-establishment parties should h...
At 27.8%, Macron’s first-round tallyon April 10 marked an improvement on his score from 2017. But a depleted reservoir of votes and the back-handed endorsements of mainstream opponents sent a clear message to the incumbent: he would have to work his socks off in between the two rounds to sway a deeply sceptical nation. Macron did just that. He hit ...
Macron’s victory caps a forgettable campaign upended by the war in Ukraine and hampered by a largely absent incumbent. Failure to challenge the president on his record means the contest will largely be remembered for Macron’s body language: his combative manner at the 11th hour, his highly memeable facial expressions during the debate, and his noto...
Apr 25, 2022 · Abstention rates rose in the second round of the French presidential election and far-right candidate Marine Le Pen gained ground in several regions, including, most surprisingly, overseas.
Apr 25, 2022 · Macron won around 58.5% of the vote versus Le Pen on 41.5%, according to preliminary official results. In doing so, he becomes the first French leader to win reelection in two decades since ...
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Apr 24, 2022 · 02:14 - Source: CNN. What we covered. President Emmanuel Macron has beaten far-right challenger Marine Le Pen in the French presidential runoff, pollsters project. Macron is set to take 58.8% of...
