French President Emmanuel Macron was re-elected with a difference between 15.2 and 16.4 points over his rival, Marine Le Pen, in the second round of the presidential elections.
With the 100% of the votes counted in France, The electoral service of the European country detailed that the official results of the presidential elections consolidated the victory of Emmanuel Macron compared to Marine Le Pen.
Macron won in the second round the 56,5% of the votes, according to the official results of the Ministry of Interior, with the count completed by 90%.
This provisional count gives Macron 16.2 million votes, in front of the 12.5 million obtained by his direct rival, Marine Le Pen.
The leader of the National Association achieved around 43.5% of the votes.
Both had already faced each other in the second round of the 2017 elections, when Macron won 66% of the vote.
In fact, Le Pen has described “historic” its result this Sunday, unprecedented for the extreme right in France.
Data from the Ministry of the Interior put the participation rate at around 73%, so the abstention would be 27%, the highest since 1969.
4.7% of the voters who did participate voted blank, while a 1.7% corresponds to invalid votes.
Macron’s victory over Le Pen in French elections
The liberal, 44, exceeded 58% of the votes but he saw how half of the advantage that five years ago allowed him to win the Presidency evaporated.
This data shows the open wounds in a country during a period marked by crises, from the “yellow vests” to the pandemic.
Another worrying sign is the low turnout, with an abstention rate of around 28%, the highest in half a century in a second round, only surpassed by the presidential elections of 1969, marked by the withdrawal of De Gaulle following the student revolts of the previous year and by a clear call for abstention from the left.
Aware of these stains, Macron was modest in his speech, pronounced in front of Torre Eiffel, to which he arrived hand in hand with his wife Brigitte and surrounded by a group of children among the notes of the Ode to Joy.
The president limited the ceremony of 2017 and recognized that the result of that night shows “a country full of doubts” and promised to work to give them an answer.
After ensuring that “ceased to be the candidate of one party to become the president of all”, promised to “listen to the silence” of the abstentionists and “the anger” of those who opted for his rival and promised to open “A new age” with a “new ambition”
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a difficult task
President, that due to the constitutional reform of 2008 that limits the maximum number of consecutive terms to two, it will not be possible to run in 2027, He acknowledged that it will not be an easy task.
Macron becomes the first president to be re-elected since 2002 and the first to do so in a presidential election that he was also facing with a favorable parliamentary majority.
sweeps the big cities, among voters with a certain purchasing power and among the elderly, but it remains unconvincing in the most depressed regions.
Le Pen has fished there, who has seen how his strategy of washing the face of the party, focusing the campaign more on purchasing power and the popular classes abandoned by globalization, It has allowed him to advance and, for the first time in history, exceed 13 million votes.
“Unfair methods”
At 53 years old and with three presidential candidates behind her, the leader of the extreme right, who had assured that a fourth would not appear, was less blunt on election night and assured her faithful that she will continue to lead the party, at least , for the legislative elections next June.
Le Pen denounced “unfair methods” to remove him from the Elysee, considered that his result “it is a victory in itself” and considered that his ideas “have dominated” during the elections, for which he asked for strong support in the National Assembly to “constitute a counterpower to Macron”.
“In this defeat I see a form of hope. This result represents for our leaders and for the European leaders a challenge that they cannot ignore”, assured Le Pen.
He warned of the risk that the president has in his hands “all the springs of power”, something that, traditionally, all his predecessors have achieved in the legislative ones that follow the presidential ones.
Macron himself won a large absolute majority in 2017, despite the fact that his party was barely a few months old and now he aspires to renew it in the legislative elections fifteen days ago.
To gain momentum in these elections, Macron may appoint a new prime minister in the coming days to replace the technocrat John Castex.
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