Proponents of the outgoing president welcomed with joy, but also relief, the announcement of the victory of their favorite. A doubly historical result: Never was a head of state, before him, managed to be re-elected outside the period of cohabitation. And never the far-right score will have been so high.
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They had to have modest triumph. But how to resist? At the announcement of the score obtained by Emmanuel Macron, the militants and sympathizers of the outgoing President, gathered on the field-of-March in Paris Sunday, April 24, did not accept their joy. In the cries of “we won!” Matched the chorus, “and one and two and five years older”, chanted during the campaign, waving French and European flags, the Macronists praised the historical victory of the outgoing President.
With 58.2% of the vote, according to the first estimates, Emmanuel Macron won it extensively against his far-right rival, Marine Le Pen, (41.8% of the votes) according to the first surveys published The output of the polls, at 8 pm.
At the foot of the Eiffel Tower the activists, after shooting a Marseillaise, exiled to the sound of the Title of the Electro Daft Punk, One More Time. “Tonight is recognition!”, Ignited Sylviane Codjia, militant lawyer for the presidential party the Republic in March (LRM), since 2017. “It’s a great relief for France!” Abonds Jean- Baptiste Carneau, Heritage Conservator, a badge “with you” pinned on the reverse of the jacket. “The gap in Marine Le Pen is not the same as five years ago because the power uses. But Emmanuel Macron has overcome all these crises, from Covid to war in Ukraine and he has kept control “He insists. “It’s the best performing,” concludes Guerlain Messin, 19, a student in engineering school.
Five years after a win-up victory inflicted on the policy of yesteryear, Emmanuel Macron, shatter from the exceeding of partisan cleavages reissued his performance. After a few cold sweats wiped over the first round on April 10, where Macronia was concerned about favorable polls for the representative of the National Gathering (NR), the Head of State knew in between -the to revive and dig the gap. Enough to afford this Sunday the images of which he had dreamed in 2017: a consecration at the foot of the Eiffel Tower. “We will live tonight an exceptional evening”, warned the president of young people with Macron, Ambroise Méjean even though neither Champagne nor small ovens were scheduled that night.
“stay humble and modest “
In 1988, François Mitterrand had decided, more soberly, to comment on his second victory on the right since the town hall of Château-Chinon in Nièvre. But Emmanuel Macron wanted to express himself since one of the symbols of the Republic whom he had not been able to occupy five years because of having obtained the authorizations from the Paris town hall.
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