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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