Centrist candidate Emmanuel Macron has decisively won the French presidential election, projected results say.
Mr Macron defeated far-right candidate Marine Le Pen by about 66% to 34% to become, at 39, the country’s youngest president, the results show. …
The BBC’s Hugh Schofield in Paris says this is the most remarkable success story of how a man who three years ago was utterly unknown to the French public, through sheer self-belief, energy – and connections – forged a political movement that has trounced all the established French political parties.
(BBC, May 7, 2017)
I said all I care to in my related commentary, “France’s Marine Le Pen, Putin’s Latest Democratic Honey Trap,” May 6, 2017.
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