Macron Wins French Presidential Election

• 25.04.2022, 7:39

The incumbent French president received 58.5% of the vote.

Emmanuel Macron won 58.54% of the votes in the second round of the French presidential election. His rival Marine Le Pen got 41.46%.

The French Interior Ministry reported it after counting 100% of the votes, writes Novoe Vremya.

Macron, 44, who became president in 2017, represented the La République En Marche! Party in the election. He will become only the third president in modern French history to hold the presidency twice in a row.

"No one will stay on the sidelines," Macron said Sunday night in his victory speech, made in Paris in front of the Eiffel Tower. Several hundred supporters, who waved French and EU flags, greeted him.

"We have much to do, and the war in Ukraine reminds us that we are going through tragic times and that France's voice must be heard," he said.

During her speech after the first exit poll results, Le Pen admitted defeat.

In the second round of the previous presidential election in May 2017, Macron also won a landslide victory, beating his rival by half (66.1 per cent to 33.9 per cent) and becoming the youngest head of state.