President Emmanuel Macron won the French presidential election with 58.55% of the votes, according to the French Ministry of Interior.
Macron took 58.55% of Sunday's vote, making him the first French leader to be reelected in 20 years. He and Le Pen advanced to the runoff after finishing in first and second place, respectively, among 12 candidates who ran in the first round on April 10While the contest was a rematch of the 2017 French presidential runoff, much of Europe watched the election with unease.
She called the result"historic" and a"shining victory" that put her political party, National Rally,"in an excellent position" for June's parliamentary elections."The game is not quite over," she said. A two week sprint to the finishMacron and Le Pen spent the last two weeks crisscrossing the country to woo those who did not vote for them in the first round.
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