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Centrist Macron beats right-winger Le Pen in French presidential election
RT,
9
May, 2017
Centrist
Emmanuel Macron has won the French presidential election, Prime
Minister Bernard Cazeneuve has said. These elections were the first
to be held under the state of emergency that was introduced after
terrorist attacks in 2015.
French
Prime Minister Bernard Cazeneuve has confirmed that
French voters have chosen Macron as president.
“A
new page of our long history is opening this evening, I want hope and
confidence to be found again this evening,”
Macron told AFP, after the first projections were announced.
Emmanuel
Macron has won the French presidential elections, receiving 66.06
percent of the vote, while his rival, Marine Le Pen, got 33.94
percent, the Interior Ministry said,
citing final results.
Marine
Le Pen has congratulated Macron on his victory. “The
French voted for continuity and I called Monsieur Macron Macron to
congratulate him on his election,”
she said.
Speaking
after the polling stations closed on Sunday, Macron said that his
victory was “a
great honor and a great responsibility.” He
promised to “protect
the most fragile” and
to fight against “all
forms of inequality and discrimination.”
“I
will defend France,” he
said, adding that he will be “at
the forefront” of
the fight against terrorism.
Macron’s
victory shows that the majority of French people wanted to unite
around the “values
of the republic,"
outgoing French President François Hollande said. “His
big victory confirms that a very large majority of our fellow
citizens wanted to gather around the values of the Republic and mark
their attachment to the European Union,”
Hollande said in a statement.
French
Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault has congratulated Macron on his
victory.
The
centrist candidate got at least 65 percent of the vote, early
projections showed.
BFMTV
cited an Elabe poll, which projected that Macron won 65.9 percent of
the votes cast, while his rival Marine Le Pen secured 34.1 percent of
the vote.
The
inauguration of Macron as president could take place on May 14, Le
Figaro reported, citing sources.
At
least 4 million voters have left their ballots blank, a number that
has doubled in comparison to 2013, Le Figaro reported, adding that at
least 12 million French citizens did not vote at all.
The youngest president in French history
Thirty-nine-year-old
Macron, from the northeastern city of Amiens, will become the
youngest president in French history. He served as Economy Minister
under Socialist President Francois Hollande's government in 2014-16,
then stepped down and set up the En Marche! movement to fight the
presidential election.
Macron’s
victory is a “victory
for the financial oligarchy, the French will realize [it soon],”
Florian Philippot, Vice President of the National Front party, told
TF1 TV channel.
Macron
and right-wing candidate Marine Le Pen were neck and neck in the
first round of elections that took place on April 23, when Macron got
24.01 percent and his rival Le Pen took 21.30 percent of the vote.
Macron’s
first round rivals, conservative Francois Fillon and leftist Benoit
Hamon, said they would vote for Macron in the second round of the
election.
Jean-Luc
Melenchon, in a statement following the first results of the
elections, said on Sunday that Macron is planning a war on the French
social welfare system.
"The
program of the new monarch-style president is known already. It is a
war against the French social welfare system, and ecological
irresponsibility,”
he said.
On
Friday evening, hours before the election’s day of silence began,
Macron’s team confirmed that it had suffered a massive hacking
attack after a trove of internal documents was released online. The
electoral commission urged the media to be cautious about publishing
the details.
On
Saturday, Macron found himself at the center of a scandal after the
leftist newspaper Liberation called on voters to cast their ballots
for Emmanuel Macron on the cover of its pre-election day edition. The
move was criticized on social media, with some users blasting the
promotion as a sign of “no
more democracy.”
Current
President Francois Hollande got 51.6 percent of the votes back in
2012, while Nicolas Sarcozy in 2007 secured 53.1 percent. Jacques
Chirac got the highest percent of the votes among presidents of the
Fifth Republic – 82.2 percent (2002).
Voting hadn't ended yet, and Macron was already on the list of G7 participants
Comments
from Pepe Escobar
Bye
bye. Not gonna happen.
Time
to get used to Manu Clinton.
First
thing he’ll do at the Elysee: reform of France’s labor code –
ruling by decree. Unions will be badly hit. Expect a “see you in
the barricades” effect – as I stressed in one of my previous
columns.
First
phone call will be to Mum Angela in Berlin. Perhaps the best punch
line Marine had in the whole campaign was when she said the country
“would be ruled by a woman anyway, me or Angela Markel.”
Clinton
wants a eurozone budget and a eurozone Minister of Economy; the
Germans are not exactly celebrating it.
The
only Clinton measure to be really celebrated would be a
“simplification” of red tape faced by French companies.
Fasten
your seat belts and grab a good stock of Margaux and/or Montrachet to
watch the show.
Comments
from the Duran’s Adam
Garie
Marine
Le Pen has conceded defeat and congratulated Emmanuel Macron who has
won with about 62% of all votes.
It
was an election that pitted a challenge versus a tired status quo,
opportunism versus seizing rising public moods in both France, Europe
and the wider west, it was about patriotism versus globalism.
In
each of these categories the former won. The embodiment of this
victory is Emmanuel Macron, but that’s all he is: an embodiment.
To
paraphrase T. S. Eliot, Macron is a hollow man, a stuffed man….a
headpiece filled with straw.
Eliot’s
poem ends with a ominous prophecy,
“This
is the way the world ends
Not
with a bang but a whimper”.
And
so ends any attempt by France to re-cast itself from its
uncomfortable position as a post-colonial power on which the sun set
some time ago, into a regional leader of a new movement for
pragmatism and peace.
Countries
now matter how large, can fall from power.
The
west, including France laughed at Russia in the 1990s. Many thought
Russia was done for. The great Empire of the Tsars and the mighty
Soviet Union was reduced into a cheap Dollar store auction where
national dignity was sold to the highest bidding scoundrel.
Russia’s
refusal to be destroyed defied these odds and many historical trends.
Due to Russia’s immensity and her fighting spirit, she was broken
but not dead. Russia rose like a phoenix in the 2000s and is still
rising.
Only
Ataturk’s Turkish Republic comes close to mirroring the
resurrection of a world power that had been broken and even that was
not as epic a task as restoring Russian power.
France
was a different story in any case. The distance of time between her
years of power and the present day were far longer than the gap
between the illegal break-up of the Soviet Union in 1991 and the
first election of Vladimir Putin in the year 2000.
But
Marine Le Pen could have restored some dignity and purpose to the
French Fifth Republic.
Alas,
it is not to be. France has been sold down the river to oblivion upon
which it has been floating for a long time.
A
woman who could have changed this has lost out to a man who is barely
worthy of the name.
French
police have deployed tear gas against a group of protesters in Paris,
an RT crew at the site reports. The protesters had reportedly been
throwing bottles at police.
According
to a Le Figaro correspondent, some 300 protesters had gathered in the
Ménilmontant neighborhood in eastern Paris
In this video Luke Rudkowski talks about the moments before Emmanuel Macron faces off with Marine Le Pen for the presidency of France and future of Europe. Many things are at stake in this election and of course the tensions are high. We give you the latest breaking news on the ground and everything we are dealing with here
Millions
of French voters cast empty ballots in the presidential run-off on
Synday, a survey revealed.
A
total of 4.2 million of French voters cast empty ballots in the
presidential run-off on Synday, a survey conducted by Ispos and Sopra
Steria said.
According
to the pollsters, 8.9 percent of the total of 47.6 million voters
cast empty ballots, refusing to give their support to either of the
candidates.
France
on Edge- President 'Rothschild' & Journalists Chased From Protest
In this video Luke Rudkowski talks about the moments before Emmanuel Macron faces off with Marine Le Pen for the presidency of France and future of Europe. Many things are at stake in this election and of course the tensions are high. We give you the latest breaking news on the ground and everything we are dealing with here
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