In the second election, Emmanuel Macron repeated his victory over the Marine Le Pen, renewing his presidency with more than 58% of the vote, up from 41.2% of the vote received by the president of the National League.
The expanded margin revealed in the first predictions thwarted the aspirations of the far-right candidate, who sought to reach Elysee for the third time. Macron, who entered the French political arena in 2017 at the age of 39, became the first French president since Jacques Chirac to be re-elected in 2002 with at least four million votes. It is higher than the 25.4% recorded in 2017 and the highest since 1962 at 28.2%.
Thousands of Macron supporters gathered on the Champ-de-Mars in front of the Eiffel Tower to react to the first predictions between the French and EU flags and the collective and unanimous sound of “Marseillaise”.
“An amazing success”. This is what Marine Le Pen defined in Pavilion D’Armennville, just minutes after it reached almost 42% of the vote (two million more than in 2017). Leads by 33.9% compared to 33.9% captured five years ago.
“Tonight the French have expressed their desire for a strong opposition against Emmanuel Macron,” Le Pen pointed out, pointing to the June legislatures already in the speech of defeat, promising “an opposition that will continue to defend them.” . [aos franceses] And protect them in the face of the erosion of their purchasing power, attacks on freedom, lowering of the retirement age promised by Macron, insecurity, anarchic immigration and judicial inaction.
When described as a campaign of proximity, the abstraction of repeated election flags to the nausea of the candidate.
The siege on the right
At 9.40pm, Macron arrives to address supporters of Champ-de-Mars, in which he begins by pointing out the critical years of his first term, which was marked by the victory of the “yellow robes” and the insurgency of epidemics. He directed the anger of those who rejected the vaccine and saw their personal freedom threatened: “Five years after the change, happy and difficult times, exceptional crises. On this day, April 24, 2022, most of us have decided to trust me as President of our Republic for the next five years.” .
Macron would consider that many of those who voted for him did so mainly to prevent the rise of the far right, which is now even more apparent. “I know people in our country voted for me today [ontem], Not to support the ideas I come up with, but to block the far right. And I want to tell you here that I know that this vow will continue to bind me in the years to come. I respect your sense of duty, your relationship with the Republic and the differences that have emerged in recent weeks. “
In a short speech far from the ecstasy of 2017, he, who is in charge of Europe’s second largest economy, promised to be president of all French people. “From this moment on, I’m not a candidate for a domain, I’m the leader of all, and many of our people today know that. [ontem] The far-right chose to find an answer to the anger and disagreements that led them to vote for the far-right. That is my responsibility. “
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