France’s far-right candidate Marine Le Pen faced up to a crushing defeat to Emmanuel Macron in the country’s presidential elections on May 7, but that didn’t stop her celebrating the fact that over a third of French citizens had voted for her.
The controversial candidate of the National Front party danced the night away at her party’s post-election gathering in France.
The contentious election sees Macron, France’s youngest ever president, inherit a fractured and divided country. In his victory speech he vowed to protect the French republic.
