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Paris (CNN) — Emmanuel Macron has won France's presidential election, fending off a historic challenge from far-right candidate Marine Le Pen during Sunday's runoff vote. Macron took 58.55% of Sunday's vote, making him the first French leader to be reelected in 20 years. He and Le Pen advanced to the runoff after finishing in first and second place, respectively, among 12 candidates who ran in the first round on April 10 While the contest was a rematch of the 2017 French presidential runoff, much of Europe watched the election with unease. A Le Pen presidency would have fundamentally changed France's...

Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen are in the runoff to be the next president of France. Find out how the race is unfolding live. Initial projections and first results expected from 8pm CEST/7pm BST

The results of an online exit poll in France have been announced. APA reports quoting La libre that up to 58% of voters voted for Emmanuel Macron. The results of the exit poll are unofficial and are subject to change.

The results in the French presidential elections are in and incumbent Emmanuel Macron, who was favourite to win, has secured a second term with 58% of the votes, projections show. Meanwhile, Marine Le Pen received 42% of the votes, they say.

The drama of the final round of voting for President in France interrupted by an attack on a priest in Nice this Sunday. Both the priest and a nun wounded politicians and police in the area quick to talk mental illness over any notion of a terrorist attack. What they will say after the voting remains to be seen. One fear of the media is that voter turnout will be low with the leftist voters staying home and narrowing the margin between incumbent Emmanuel Macron and challenger Marine Le Pen. Le Pen's hopes pinned on a maximum mobilization of anti-Macron...

Opinion polling released just days before Sunday’s French presidential second round vote has put little distance between President Emmanuel Macron and populist challenger Marine Le Pen. A poll released Thursday by the firm Odoxa has Macron and Le Pen just six points apart, with Macron receiving 53 per cent in the polling and Le Pen receiving 47 per cent. According to Odoxa, President Macron is having great difficulties in wooing voters who turned out for other candidates in the first round of the election, and has not been able to attract more than 50 per cent of the voters of...

French Nationalist Marine Le Pen has been gaining in popularity since her defeat in 2017, where she lost by a whopping 33% margin to globalist Emmanuel Macron.While Macron is still projected to win in recent polling, he is projected to win by a much smaller margin than in 2017.Le Pen faces a unique challenge in this election. She had to face off against a candidate to her right in the first round of elections; both candidates viciously attacked each other while campaigning. Her opponent, who endorsed Le Pen last week, only got 7% of the vote in the first round...

Emmanuel Macron has hacked away at civil liberties, with heightened police repression and ministers promising to root out “Islamo-leftism.” Marine Le Pen would be much worse — she’ll wage all-out war on France’s democratic institutions. Spirits were low last Tuesday at the Dorothy, a café and community space in Paris named after Catholic American labor activist Dorothy Day. Two days earlier, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, leader of the left-wing France Insoumise, had finished third in the first round of France’s presidential election, a little over 400,000 votes shy of qualifying for the runoff. The reality was sinking in that on April 24,...

Paper ballots tucked in paper envelopes. No absentee voting, and no early voting either. French voters in Sunday’s presidential election are using and old-school system that has defied calls for more flexibility or modernization. As France’s 48.8 million voters are invited to choose between President Emmanuel Macron and his far-right challenger Marine Le Pen, here is a look at how the French election works: HOW DO THEY CAST BALLOTS? Voters make their choices in a booth, with the curtains closed, then place their ballot in an envelope that is then put into a transparent ballot box. They must show photo...

A knifeman shouted 'we have to kill Macron' as he stabbed a priest and a nun multiple times in an unprovoked attack in France this morning. Father Krzysztof Rudzinski, 59, was stabbed 20 times with a 7cm knife before Sister Marie-Claude, 72, was cut in the hand as she reportedly snatched the knife from the attacker. French police arrested a 31-year-old French man from Fréjus, southeastern France, after the attack at 10am in the Saint Pierre d'Arène church, Nice. France began voting on Sunday in a presidential run-off election in a race between incumbent Emmanuel Macron and far-right politician Marine...

It is fear of Marine Le Pen that will keep Emmanuel Macron in office. It is hope for change that may see him lose. In yet another example of the push for national sovereignty around the globe that has manifested in the last decade, the French presidential elections are about to run their course. The two-round election was introduced by General Charles De Gaulle as the Fifth Republic was installed in 1958. It will be the 11th such election since then. Americans would do well to pay attention. The first round enables the populace to vote with their hearts. They...

The second round of French presidential elections opened this morning between incumbent President Emanuel Macron and far-right candidate Marine Le Pen. According to recent polls, Macron leads by almost 10% over his rival. .....

"What's the point of shouting 'Macron Resign!' everywhere when you can fire him." Marine Le Pen Making A Campaign Speech Thursday 4/21/2022 Marine Le Pen made her pitch for votes trying to reach and unify the anti-Macron vote in France embodied in Yellow Vests protests demanding he leave office with many protesters coming from a left-wing perspective. Mewanwhile the leader of the "Left" in France Jean-Luc Melenchon trotted out before the cameras this week in France with mainstream media demanding he endorse Emmanuel Macron over Marine Le Pen. Melenchon denounced Le Pen but could not offer up praise for Macron,...

France, Germany, and at least 10 other European nations sold £230million worth of military hardware and defensive kits to Moscow which was used by Kremlin during the war in Ukraine, an EU analysis revealed. The selling of the weapon systems was apparently ‘illegal’ under the EU embargo that bans the arms sale to Russia after the 2014 annexation of Crimea by the Russians. Primarily, France, Germany and Italy have exploited the loophole in the arms embargo and exported missiles, rockets, guns and bombs to Moscow, as first reported by UK’s The Telegraph.

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WASHINGTON — U.S. officials are anxiously watching the French presidential election, aware that the outcome of the vote on Sunday could scramble President Joe Biden’s relations with Europe and reveal dangerous fissures in Western democracy. President Emmanuel Macron of France has been a crucial partner as Biden has rebuilt relations with Europe, promoted democracy and forged a coalition in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. But Macron is in a tight contest with Marine Le Pen, a far-right challenger. Le Pen is a populist agitator who, in the style of former President Donald Trump, scorns European Union “globalists,” criticizes NATO...

The canadidate of the National Rally was particularly virulent towards her opponent during her last meeting organized this Thursday in Arras. At the end of the debate between the two rounds which opposed her to Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday evening, political observers were inhabited by a question. Why didn't Marine Le Pen show herself to be more virulent towards her competitor? The shooting was corrected this Thursday, during the last campaign meeting that the deputy of Pas-de-Calais held in Arras. Three days before the first round, Marine Le Pen forcefully attacked her opponent, denouncing in particular her "arrogance" during the...

Next Sunday, French voters will decide on their next president. While most of the country and the rest of the world are united, for valid reasons, against populist Marine Le Pen, the truth of the matter is that voters have a choice between two shades of illiberalism: the aggressively populist one of Le Front National and its authoritarianism-light version represented by incumbent President Emmanuel Macron. Le Pen is everything observers around the world are saying she is. She is anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim, taking positions among the worst that populism has to offer. She's also obsessed with "wokisme," a catchall word...

The sorry pout of Emmanuel Macron facing Marine Le Pen at the start of the debate between the two presidential rounds has not finished talking. On social networks, Internet users are numerous to make fun of the image this Wednesday evening. The image made an impression from the first minutes of the debate between the two rounds this Wednesday: that of the sorry face of Emmanuel Macron facing Marine Le Pen, Hands crossed under his chin, the outgoing president wore a facial expression that did not fail to amuse many internet users, while his opponent unfolded his introductory remarks. During...