Monday 8 May 2017

Centrist candidate Emmanuel Macron wins French election

Victory for Macron

Finally, after all the verbal attacks and campaigns from both sides, Marine Le Pen concedes defeat to centrist presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron as he wins the French presidential election on Sunday to become the youngest leader in France.

Mrs Le Pen while addressing a crowd of followers in the east of Paris, sent her congratulatory message to Macron and said the people of France had voted for "continuity".

Meanwhile, Macron’s followers went in their numbers to the courtyard outside the Louvre museum in the country’s capital to receive his victory speech.

Addressing AFP, he proclaimed that a new "hopeful and confident" chapter had begun.

His triumph marks a stunning rise for the banker turned politician, who only set up his En Marche! (On the move) party last year and becomes the country's youngest ever leader.

Thus bringing about a shift in the political history of France, as the centre-right and centre-left parties begins to fall in the first round for the first time in more than 50 years, leaving Mr Macron and Ms Le Pen to fight to the finish.

Macron’s electoral victory has been welcome by the European Union as he promised to build a stronger EU integration, as against Le Pen who promised to pull France out from the bloc.


His victory makes the third time within a period of six months that voters in EU nations will reject far-right candidates after Austria and the Netherlands. And as a result will bolster the EU’s position during Brexit negotiations.

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