FRENCH ELECTION EMMANUEL MACRON

ELECTED PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC

Emmanuel Macron was re-elected president for a second term against Marine Le Pen with 58.5% of the vote, according to Ifop.

Abstention, up from 2017, is estimated at 28.3%.

However, a majority of French people do not want Emmanuel Macron, just re-elected President of the Republic, to win the June legislative elections, according to two polls published on Sunday evening.

According to an Opinionway poll for Cnews and Europe 1, 63% of those questioned want Emmanuel Macron "not to have a majority and be forced to cohabit" , compared to 35% who want him to "have a majority in the National Assembly and can carry out its policy" (and 2% who do not comment).

Just-elected Emmanuel Macron dines with his relatives at La Lanterne.

At the same time, on the Place de la République in Paris, the few hundred demonstrators gathered promise to "redo Nuit Debout" and laboriously try to launch Act 1 of the new five-year term.

Emmanuel Macron said:

“We will have to be demanding and ambitious. The war in Ukraine is there, to remind us (that) France must raise its voice to show the clarity of its choices and show its strength in all areas, ”explained Emmanuel Macron at Champ-de-Mars.

“We will have to be benevolent and respectful because our country is steeped in so many doubts, so many divisions. No one will be left by the wayside. It will be up to us together to work for this unity through which we can live happier in France. The years to come will certainly not be quiet, but will be historic, and we will be able to write them for our generation!

And to conclude:

"This new era will not be the continuity of the five-year period which is ending", promising a "refounded method".

“Each of us will have to commit to it. This is what makes the French people this singular force that I love so deeply, so intensely, and that I am so proud to serve again. Long live the Republic and long live France!”.

In conclusion :

Emmanuel Macron was re-elected Sunday, April 24, 2022 President of the French Republic.