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Post by Admin on Apr 24, 2022 20:54:52 GMT
BREAKING: Emmanuel Macron re-elected as French President 27,580 views Apr 25, 2022 The EU Commission President has congratulated Macron after the projected result showed he had won 58.2% of the vote, compared with Marine Le Pen's 41.8%.
Denis Franceskin, who represents Le Pen abroad said the result is still a 'significant victory'.
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Post by Admin on Apr 25, 2022 1:02:38 GMT
Despite the failure of Ms. Le Pen's campaign ahead of the second round, which saw her fail to pick up all the potential votes in her grasp, she insisted to her detractors that she continues to move up the rankings in elections, even calling it a "resounding victory."
"I will continue my commitment to France and the French," she said on Sunday night, at the end of her third presidential campaign.
How exactly France's political landscape will be reconfigured will become clearer in the next few months, but it's now a match between the three main parties that emerged from the first round − Mr. Macron, Ms. Le Pen and Mr. Mélenchon. In fact, only Mr. Macron will not be able to be a candidate again in 2027, because the French Constitution limits him to two terms.
The fight for who will succeed him in his own party has now begun. But it will also be Mr. Macron's responsibility to stem the relentless rise of the far right. Never has there been such a large share of protest votes, between the Rassemblement National, La France Insoumise and voters who abstained. "Le coup passa si près que le chapeau tomba" ("The bullet passed so close that his hat fell off") wrote Victor Hugo in his poem "After the Battle." Mr. Macron must be careful that next time his head isn't taken with it.
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Post by Admin on Apr 25, 2022 17:11:16 GMT
After the results were announced, there were protests in several cities against both candidates. Fireworks were launched at police and tear gas was used to clear crowds. One banner derided Macron as "the Robin Hood of the RICH." Le Pen echoed that sentiment in her own speech, accepting defeat but urging her supporters to keep fighting "this hoarding of power by a few," and vowing to continue her "commitment to France." "We stood up against nationalism, we tried to show that today, we have to be more united than ever," said one reveler. But carrying more than 40% of the electorate, it was the closest the far-right has come to taking the top seat in any French election, so Macron's celebration will be short-lived. The election has shown just how deeply divided France is right now — a reality the president acknowledged in his victory speech. "We need to be respectful," he said. "Our country is full of so many divisions, so we need to be strong, but no one will be left behind."
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Post by Admin on Apr 26, 2022 19:33:47 GMT
What next for Anglo-French relations? - BBC Newsnight 17,631 views Apr 26, 2022 Emmanuel Macron has become the first French President in 20 years to win re-election.
However his relationship with his UK opposite number, Boris Johnson, continues to be tested as the two clash on issues of Brexit.
Does a new term in office for Macron represent a fresh start for relations between the UK and France?
#Newsnight's Political Editor Nick Watt takes a look at the unpredictable relationship between the two heads of state.
Newsnight is the BBC's flagship news and current affairs TV programme - with analysis, debate, exclusives, and robust interviews.
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Post by Admin on Jul 8, 2023 21:02:59 GMT
"What have you done with France!?" Marine Le Pen lashes out at Macron and his predecessors after days of rioting.
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In her first speech in parliament as France's riots ebbed this week, far-right leader Marine Le Pen accused the government of turning the country into a "hell" that she had foreseen.
"The reality is that you didn't want to hear any of the warnings," said the 54-year-old, whose 89 MPs form the biggest opposition party in parliament since elections last year.
"We predicted what is happening despite great adversity. Unfortunately we were right."
She and her father Jean-Marie have been forecasting France's demise and even civil war since the 1970s in doom-laden speeches focused on the presence of foreigners in France.
"Above all and before anything else, we need to stop anarchic immigration," Le Pen continued.
The political fall-out from France's worst urban violence since 2005 remains highly uncertain, leading to speculation about who stands to gain from the breakdown in law and order that has shocked millions of French people.
Le Pen and many others on the right have sought to blame the mass looting and clashes on immigrant-origin communities, mostly from former French colonies in Africa, who have settled in suburban areas in towns and cities since the 1960s.
Despite the riots being sparked by allegations of police brutality and racism after the fatal shooting of Nahel M. -- a 17-year-old boy of Algerian origin in Paris -- many analysts feel the far-right promise of a radical crackdown on crime and immigration could find new takers.
"I think we'll see a rise of several points for the National Rally in an extension of the quite incredible gains they've made over the last few years," Olivier Babeau, co-founder of the right-leaning Institute Sapiens think-tank, told AFP.
"Without them really doing or saying much, events are helping them convince part of the population," he added.
Le Pen achieved her highest-ever score in last year's presidential elections -- 41.5 percent in the second round --- and then celebrated record parliamentary election results two months later.
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