Emmanuel Macron is on course to gain 58% of the French presidential election vote and a clear victory over Marine Le Pen of National Rally. This is a dramatic win for Macron and Republic on the Move, as the French electorate hasn't backed a president for two terms for twenty years. He is the first French president to win re-election since Jacques Chirac in 2002, and never before has a president been re-elected with a majority in parliament.
Macron secures victory in French presidential election
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Interesting editorial article in La Monde yesterday. Which I think Sums up many western politicians today. Not just France certainly the U.K. and many other nations. 38% of voters available backed Macron. The rest did not. None of the above vote being the majority. Maybe our own political class is a bigger threat to western democracy than the autocratics like putin
As bad as Macron is, Le Pen would have been a total disaster for France and Europe.
People like Le Pen mean instability and in the end economic melt down for France.
Or the current situation with Vox in Spain perhaps?
Well that's a relief. The last thing we need is another Trump/Putin apologist at the helm of another major European member state. Look what happened to Britain. And that's not over yet.