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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: 2) by AthanasiusKircher on Monday May 08 2017, @01:36PM
For a contrary view, I think it's absolutely critical that people of different views come into contact. You know how many people change their views in an echo chamber? Zero. All it mostly leads to is radicalism.
While I completely agree with you there, it can also get frustrating when you start to doubt the sincerity of many posters. I'm not going to call out users here by name (I'm sure we all know them), but a number of frequent posters here seem to vacillate between reason/engagement/insightfulness and obvious taunting or even insincere trolling. Frequently it even happens in the same post, which makes moderation difficult. It also makes it difficult to judge where to "don't feed the troll" because it's not always straight "troll-like" behavior for a number of them.
Dialogue between disagreeing factions is great. Arguing with people who may or may not be serious at any given point can be tiresome.