Emmanuel Macron has been declared the President of France after early vote counts:
France has a new president. Emmanuel Macron – an independent centrist who has never held elected office – has won a resounding victory over far-right, nationalist Marine Le Pen in the most important French presidential race in decades, according to early vote counts by the French Interior Ministry.
In early returns, Macron had won an estimated 65 percent of the vote to Le Pen's nearly 35 percent, according to the French Interior Ministry. Le Pen has already called to congratulate Macron and conceded defeat to a gathering of her supporters in Paris.
Also at The Guardian (live), Washington Post, NYT, Reuters, and The Local.
From CNBC: Euro hits six-month high on Macron victory
CNN editorial: Why Macron's victory is reassuring ... and yet not
BBC has an article about Macron's potential choice of Prime Minister.
(Score: 5, Informative) by mendax on Sunday May 07 2017, @11:50PM (4 children)
Well, for one thing, there won't be a "Frexit" any time soon, something that would be a disaster worse than the one the British are getting themselves into soon. Second, it means that the Euro is here to stay, at least for the foreseeable future. But more importantly, it means that the alliance between the French and the Germans, one that was advocated by Winston Churchill after the end of the Second World War, will remain very strong, thereby ensuring the peace of western Europe.
It's really quite a simple choice: Life, Death, or Los Angeles.
(Score: 2) by archfeld on Monday May 08 2017, @01:41AM
Thank-you....
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(Score: 1) by Linatux on Monday May 08 2017, @02:39AM
the alliance between the French and the Germans just means they will suffer the same - peace is far from guaranteed
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 08 2017, @04:07AM
They were close friends during the war. [wikipedia.org] Not allies but close.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 08 2017, @07:05PM
Remember, long ago World War I used to be called "the war to end all wars" or "the Great War" and nothing like that would happen ever again. Let's not be fools about this. War is coming. It is inevitable. Numerous civilizations have collapsed; the people who inherit great civilizations are seldom able to sustain them for many generations due to sloth, greed, acceptance of cultural invasion, acceptance of cultural change, and an unwillingness to brutally fight.
When most of the children born are from 3rd-world Muslim immigrants, which is soon to be the case, you're seeing the extinction of a civilization. There is going to be a fight. We're only 20 to 30 years away from genocide. Probably the Muslims will win, but nobody can be sure. Whatever happens, it will be bloody, and France will not be able to retain the trappings of a modern nation. Perhaps a non-Muslim country will rise from the ashes of France within a century. Perhaps not. The rest of the world could be facing an ISIS-like country with nukes.