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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) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 08 2017, @01:37PM
Actually, it might interest you to learn that it is no longer possible to leave the Catholic church. At least formally [wikipedia.org].
You can of course claim to not be catholic, but you could still be listed as being one in various countries and church records.
Though I agree somewhat with your sentiment and it may often not make sense to name such people by their link to a religion they hardly care about, I think the world is not black and white. Many people feel somewhat attached to their original religion, without following it to the letter (or in fact, much at all). This is a well recognized phenomenon [wikipedia.org], at least for Catholics. But I see no real reason why it could not be applied to other religions.