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posted by on Sunday May 07 2017, @10:42PM   Printer-friendly
from the le-roi-est-mort dept.

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.


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  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 08 2017, @04:35PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 08 2017, @04:35PM (#506423)

    I also fail to see where the scripture orders to terrorize people.

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  • (Score: 2) by VLM on Monday May 08 2017, @08:39PM

    by VLM (445) Subscriber Badge on Monday May 08 2017, @08:39PM (#506556)

    Ahem, old testament, ahem. Of course there's a lot of old testament that most Christians are not terribly interested in.

    Also its a classic old book vs modern interpretation. Uncle Adolf was portrayed as a nice guy in Mein Kampf, a nice devout Catholic Vegetarian semi-pacifist after getting gassed in WWI, a real nice guy. Well that's an old book, whereas the modern portrayal in progressive media is not quite as complimentary toward dear uncle Adolf. So some old book said something, whatevs...