{"id":4961,"date":"2017-05-08T11:49:50","date_gmt":"2017-05-08T09:49:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.polyas.de\/blog\/?p=4961"},"modified":"2017-05-08T11:49:50","modified_gmt":"2017-05-08T09:49:50","slug":"french-presidential-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.polyas.de\/blog\/en\/online-elections\/french-presidential-elections","title":{"rendered":"#Election News: En Marche! &#8211; French Presidential Election Results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The final round of the French Presidential elections took place yesterday May 7. In what was always going to be a historic result, the people of France voted decisively in electing their president. Here we bring you all the results and reaction in this installment of #Election News.<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The EU is breathing a collective sigh of relief. Emmanuel Macron has been elected as the next president of France &#8211; winning well above the absolute majority required in the final round of the french presidential elections. The 39-year-old <em>En Marche<\/em> candidate will become France\u2019s youngest president and the first to be drawn from outside the two major parties since the establishment of the Fifth Republic in 1958. Macron, the centrist former investment banker, defeated far-right candidate Marine Le Pen in the second round runoff vote.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4 class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Results at a glance: French Presidential elections<\/span><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Emmanuel Macron won with 66% of the vote<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Marine Le Pen won 34% of the vote<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Voter turnout lowest in 40 years at 65%<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">12 million <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2017\/may\/07\/emmanuel-macron-wins-french-presidency-marine-le-pen\" target=\"_blank\">abstentions<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">4.2 million spoilt ballots<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Macron <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-europe-39839349\" target=\"_blank\">addressed supporters<\/a> outside the Louvre in Paris declaring \u201cTonight you won, France won. Everyone told us it was impossible, but they don\u2019t know France.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Le Pen also thanked her supporters, pledging to renew her National Front party in time for the parliamentary elections in June. The defeated Le Pen also wished Macron the best in confronting the \u201chuge challenges facing him\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4 class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">A Vote for the European Union<\/span><\/h4>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">One of the central issues of the bitterly fought campaign was the European Union. The defeat of anti-EU Le Pen is seen as a major victory for the embattled trading bloc. Especially in light of last year\u2019s Brexit referendum which sent shock waves through Brussels. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Jean-Claude Juncker, head of the European Commission, tweeted his support for Macron\u2019s victory \u201cHappy that the French chose a European future\u201d. Likewise, German Chancellor Angela Merkel described Macron\u2019s triumph as a \u201cvictory for a strong and united Europe\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Anti-EU voices across the continent correspondingly expressed their disappointment in yesterday\u2019s result. Leading Brexit campaigner and former United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) leader Nigel Farage remarked bluntly \u201cMacron offers five more years of failure\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4 class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">What next for Macron?<\/span><\/h4>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The new French President will move into the \u00c9lys\u00e9e to begin his five-year term next Sunday, May 14. There will be no honeymoon period for Macron as he is expected to announce his Prime Minister next Monday. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">He will then turn his eye towards the upcoming parliamentary elections which will present a huge challenge. Macron\u2019s En Marche party is barely a year old, and despite pledging to field candidates in all 577 constituencies, he faces an uphill battle to win a majority in the legislature. Although he scored a comprehensive victory yesterday, much of his majority can be attributed to establishment party voters turning to him to keep Le Pen out. Whether or not these same voters will be convinced to abandon the two major parties and vote for En Marche in the parliamentary elections remains to be seen.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Regardless of what happens in June, we\u2019ll be here to bring you all the results and reaction in #Election News!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The final round of the French Presidential elections took place yesterday May 7. In what was always going to be a historic result, the people of France voted decisively in electing their president. 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