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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: 0, Flamebait) by jmorris on Monday May 08 2017, @02:03AM (2 children)
Steady on, hold the line and all that stuff. Can't think of a proper car analogy but a Star Wars one is apt. BrExit and Trump was A New Hope and Belgium and France says we are now in The Empire Strikes Back, but we know eventually we make it to Return of the Jedi and win. This moron can't possibly make things any better for France and is in fact almost certain to make it a lot worse. If their ideas worked they would have worked -somewhere- by now. They don't, so just hold the line and be patient. There just wasn't enough pain yet for France to be willing to take a chance.
(Score: 2) by julian on Monday May 08 2017, @04:31AM (1 child)
I've got some bad news for you. [youtube.com]
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 08 2017, @04:58AM
It is maddening knowing there are hordes of Russian propagandists flooding websites with ideologies, because when is someone an actual reactionary nationalist and when are they just a shill trying to please their master?
I guess its tomatoes and potatoes all the way down...
Given the occasional bouts of lucidity from the likes of Jmo, the disowned Puerto Rican 3rd cousin of Jennifer Lopez (sorry Puerto Rico), I tend to think it must be a propagandist trying to stir up some shit and derail conversations. It would actually be much more sad if the person is a legit US citizen.